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(1833 - 1914)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer at Fairplay in 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.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, probably in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, his "arm shot off."
The rest of the War
His left hand was amputated and he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 25 September. He was discharged for disability on 14 October 1862.
After the War
In 1870 he was again a farmer in Morgan County, GA but by 1900 was farming in DeKalb County, AL and in 1910 was retired in Calhoun County, AL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary E. Partee (1838-1880) in December 1855 and they had 4 children. He married again, Margaret M Robertson (1837-1913) in June 1882.
His brothers Henry and John Ford Studdard (1844-1862) were also members of Company G of the Legion; John died of smallpox in Winchester, VA in November 1862.
Birth
05/26/1833; Morgan County, GA
Death
08/11/1914; burial in Longshore Cemetery, DeKalb County, AL
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 33909]