Ezekiel Dixon Thacker

His father died when Ezekiel was 4 years old, and in 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his mother and sister Sarah on their small farm near Oak Hill in Newton County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Washington, DC on 21 September and transferred to the Old Capitol Prison there on 30 September. He was home on furlough in November 1862. He was captured again, at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and held at Newport News, VA to 25 June when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was back farming at Oak Hill, GA.

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

He married Sarah Elizabeth Langley (1847-1940) in September 1868 and they had 5 children.

05/29/1842; Covington, GA

02/17/1899; Covington, GA; burial in Bethany Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Covington, GA