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(1836 - 1917)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker on William Robertson's place near Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 2 August as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on wounded furlough to 15 December 1862, then returned to duty. He was promoted to 2nd Corporal by June 1864 and was a Sergeant when he was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Morgan County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Jane Christina Launius (1844-1922) in August 1865 and they had 4 children. Her brother Jeptha was also in Company G of the Legion.
Birth
10/1836 in GA
Death
04/21/1917; Morgan County, GA; burial in Rehobeth Cemetery, Morgan County, 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 33846]