Isaac Henderson Stewart

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents, 8 younger siblings, and 2 slaves on their farm at Flat Rock in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 October and furloughed home for 40 days on 5 November. He was there to at least 26 January 1863. He was again in a Richmond hospital on 18 April and sent on detail on 7 May 1863, probably to the hospital at Camp Winder, VA, and probably to the end of the war.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming his own place at Flat Rock, 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 daughter Mattie (Davis) obtained a government headstone for him in 1933.

He married Elizabeth Watts (1841-1929) in July 1865 and they had 7 children.

His brother William M. Stewart (1842-1913) was also in Company C of the Legion, and served through the war, but was in a Richmond, VA hospital at the start of the Maryland Campaign.

05/06/1839; Screven County, GA

10/13/1894; in GA; burial in Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Snapfinger, GA