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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Solomon Wesley Swofford

(1830 - 1887)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer at Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Carrollton, GA on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and was paroled at Fort McHenry in Baltimore in November. He was home on furlough by December 1862 and there is no later record of him with the Legion

His widow's Confederate pension application of January 1902 says he left the service in June 1863.

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer in Douglas County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Solomon W Swafford. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary "Polly" Hembree (1839-1923) in February 1857 and they had 5 children.

Birth

08/07/1830 in NC

Death

07/06/1887; Villa Rica, GA; burial in Powell Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Villa Rica, GA

Notes

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 33910]

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