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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Albert F. Talbot

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer near Athens in Clarke County, GA, probably on the W J Thornton plantation. He enlisted in Athens on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He received pay at Staunton, VA on 15 November, then was home on furlough to 5 July 1863. He was afterward with his company to their surrender and parole at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was "at home" (unemployed? disabled?) next door to his parents' farm at Athens, GA.

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, also as Albert F Tolbert.

He married Mary Nix (1841-) in February 1857 and they had at least 4 children by 1870.

Birth

c. 1841 in 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 33913]

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