Antoine Alonzo Nolan

Going by Alonzo, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his recently widowed mother, 2 siblings, and 41 slaves on their plantation near Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there 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.

He was wounded by gunshots to his cheek and left thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and at a US hospital in Fredrick, MD, then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled in November 1862. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 4 December and furloughed home for 90 days on 19 December 1862. He was back with his company by October 1863. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital with for the wound to his left thigh in May 1864 and retired to the Invalid Corps on 26 July 1864.

His left foot and toes were permanently paralyzed by his thigh wound. He went to Atlanta after the war and in 1880 was a shoe dealer there. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was in the insurance business in Atlanta - first as an agent, then, by 1909, as Financial Secretary of the National Union Assurance Society, a life insurance company.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Alonzo A Nolan. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920, his pension applications of 1893 and later, and the Atlanta City Directory (1909, 1920). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Emma McKinley (1848-1921) in December 1870 and they had 3 daughters.

01/10/1845; Morgan County, GA

02/13/1927; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA