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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer (?) in Burke County, GA. 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.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Narcissa filed a claim for his final pay in January 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Narcissa Scarborough (1842-1878) in November 1857 and they had a daughter Amelia A "Anzzy" Sapp (1858-1880).
Birth
c. 1836; Burke County, GA
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD
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 33897]