Solon Bradford Orr

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their small farm near Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted and mustered in Carrollton, GA on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip or thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled on 20 October and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 23 October and sent home on furlough for 30 days on 3 (or 10) November. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 8 December 1862 and returned to duty about 11 February 1863.

He deserted his unit on 2 October 1864 at Harrisonburg, VA and made his way to US troops at New Creek, WV by 13 October. He was thought to have taken an oath of allegiance there to the United States, and there is no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farm worker on his sister-in-law Mary Mauk's place in Carroll County, GA but in 1880 was farming his own place there. By 1900 he was a farmer at Caney in Nevada County, AR (his sister-in-law Mary living with his family). In 1910 he was farming at Buckner in Lafayette County, AR.

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 Ruhama Harriett Mauk (1846-1930) in September 1867 and they had 12 children.

06/24/1842; Carroll County, GA

06/21/1910; Lafayette County, AR; burial in Buckner Memorial Cemetery, Buckner, AR