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(1838 - 1887)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Covington, GA and mustered as a Private in Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion on 5 August.
On the Campaign
He captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 and returned to duty. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant, date not found, and was captured again, on 29 November 1863 near Knoxville, TN and afterward a prisoner in Louisville, KY. He was transferred to Rock Island, IL on 31 December 1863 and sent for exchange on 2 March 1865, place not given, with no later military record.
After the War
By 1880 he was a grocer in Atlanta, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary N. Brown (1842-1909) in November 1867 in Morgan County, GA and they had 4 children, but only one survived childhood.
Birth
1838 in GA
Death
02/08/1887; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
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 33843]