Theodore Springer

In 1860 he was a 16 year old barber living with younger sisters (?) Louisa and Emma in the household of barber Lewis Shelpert in Madison, Morgan County, GA. He enlisted in Madison, GA on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg 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 where his leg was amputated. He was then at the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD from 16 November to 5 December, afterward held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 8 December, when he was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 10 December and sent home on wounded furlough on 19 December 1862, and did not rejoin his company.

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

c. 1844 in GERMANY

10/26/1874; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA