Isaac Henry House

He enlisted in Athens, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as 4th Corporal of Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant by September 1862.

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was First Sergeant of his company by July 1863 and was wounded by a piece of shell that month, probably at Gettysburg, PA. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 20 July and sent on to Jackson Hospital in that city on 7 August. He was returned to duty on 16 September 1863 and was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States on 25 June 1865 at Newport News, VA and was released.

In 1870 he was a drug merchant at Monroe in Walton County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Permelia Ann Austin (1843-1924) in 1863 and they had 3 children.

02/27/1837; Winder, GA

11/30/1879; burial in Chapel Christian Church Cemetery, Winder, GA