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(1831 - 1912)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 29 year old carriage maker in Bowdon, Carroll County, GA and he was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church that year. He enlisted on 30 July 1861 in Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B 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 home on wounded furlough in November 1862. He may afterward have acted as a Chaplain to the regiment, though he was not commissioned as such.
He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left foot at Gettysburg, PA and captured there. He was treated in the Seminary and Letterman Hospitals in Gettysburg, then sent to the US Army hospital in West's Buildings in Baltimore on 10 September. He was paroled there on 25 September and transferred to City Point, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and furloughed home on 3 October 1863 for 30 days.
He was wounded yet again, by a gunshot to his left land in September 1864 and back in Jackson Hospital on 24 September. He returned to duty on 29 October but was medically retired on 10 November and detailed to the post at Greenville, GA from a hospital in Staunton, VA on 14 December 1864. There is no later military record.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Madisonville in Madison County, TX, by then an ordained Deacon and Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in 1880 he was a carpenter there. By 1900 he was a farmer in Montgomery County, TX and he had retired to Grimes County, TX by 1910.
He was also a circuit-riding preacher in Texas from 1871 to 1895.
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, as Gideon Benjamin Powledge; I have found no documentation for a middle name.
He married Louiza Britt Sewell (1833-1915) in December 1851 and they had 12 children.
His first ancestor in America was probably Johann Martin Paulitsch (b. Augsberg, Bayern c. 1730).
Birth
03/07/1831; Macon, GA
Death
09/10/1912; Grimes County, TX; burial in Bedias Methodist Cemetery, Bedias, Grimes County, TX
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 33885]