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(c. 1839 - 1864)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his widowed mother Harriet and 3 younger siblings at Starrsville in Newton County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion on 5 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore from 9 to 11 October, then sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to the hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond, VA on 15 October, then in Howard's Grove Hospital from 4 November to 20 November 1862, when he returned to duty. He was killed in action on 6 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His (twin?) brother Washington was also in Company A of the Legion.
Birth
c. 1839; Newton County, GA
Death
05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA
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 33879]