Hardy Council Sapp

Not quite 16 years old, he enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 8 August as a Private in Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded in the back of his shoulder in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 28 September and then home on wounded furlough from 15 October to 20 August 1863. He was wounded by a piece of shell to his lower left leg and captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and was sent from the US 5th Army Corps depot field hospital at City Point, VA to Washington, DC on the hospital steamer State of Maine on 18 April. He was treated in Lincoln General Hospital in Washington, where he took an oath of allegiance to the United States on 12 June and was released.

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Burke County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Council H. Sapp. Personal details from his Confederate pension applications of 1907 and later, his widow's pension application of 1923, and the 1880 & 1900 US Census. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine D. "Mittie" (?, 1845-1928) in November 1870.

08/11/1845; Burke County, GA

01/03/1922; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Waynesboro, GA