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A.H. Pickett
(1836 - 1900)
Home State: Alabama
Education: University of Alabama, Class of 1859
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a wealthy planter, in 1860 he was a 22 year old merchant living with (partner?) J. A. Devin and family in Macon County, AL. He enlisted on 26 April 1861 in Union Springs, AL and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October and formally exchanged on 10 November to return to duty. He was promoted to Lieutenant and appointed Adjutant of the regiment on 18 December 1862 and was acting Aide de Camp to Colonel O'Neal, then commanding the brigade, at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863.
In August 1863 he was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Cullen Battle. He was with the general into 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a store clerk, probably in the Powell dry goods business, living with his in-laws in Union Springs, by then part of Bullock County, AL. In 1870-71 was one of the promoters of the Montgomery-Union Springs-Eufaula Railroad (RR), later part of the Central of Georgia RR. By 1880 he was a farmer in Union Springs, still living with his father in law, and from 1886 to 1898 he was clerk of the circuit court.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Krick.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880; some references have his birth in Macon County, AL. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance shared on the Alabama Confederate Images Facebook page; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.
He married Virginia Elizabeth Powell (1845-1933) in April 1864. They had 7 daughters and also raised 4 of Virginia's orphaned Powell nephews.
More on the Web
See an exhibit of his April 1863 requisition for a new battle flag over on the blog.
A photograph of him taken on graduating from the University of Alabama in 1859 is in the Dominique Doux Fiquet photograph album, now in the University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
Birth
12/08/1836; Lumpkin, GA
Death
01/11/1900; Union Springs, AL; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Union Springs, AL
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 33821]
2 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 243 [AotW citation 33822]