Sanford Moses Powell

In 1861, going by Moses, he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on their plantation near Conyers in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Covington, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded in the right shoulder and 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 the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD to 28 November, when he was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was exchanged at City Point, VA on 4 December and admitted that day to a hospital in Petersburg, VA. He was home on wounded furlough from 14 December to 21 January 1863. He was medically retired on 5 December 1864 and was on detail as a nurse to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA in December 1864 and January 1865, but was listed with his company when they were surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a house carpenter in Atlanta, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother James was also in Company A.

03/06/1840 in GA

12/24/1898; Fulton County, GA; burial in Casey's Hill Cemetery, Atlanta, GA