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(? - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Richmond, VA on 25 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion. He as elected First Corporal on 1 December 1861 and promoted to 4th Sergeant about June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action in Maryland in September 1862, place and date not given.
The rest of the War
He was on wounded furlough to at least December 1862. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863 and captured, and he died later the same day in the US 9th Army Corps hospital there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.
Death
11/29/1863; Knoxville, TN
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33806]