Asa Franklin Ward

He enlisted in Carrollton, GA on 15 August 1861 and mustered as a private in Company B of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He transferred to Company F in December 1861.

He was wounded by gunshots to his right thumb, breaking bone, and to his right leg and left side in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA and sent home on furlough for 40 days on 28 October 1862 - which was extended to April 1863. He was back in a Richmond hospital for his leg wound in May 1863. His leg ulcerated in July and he was furloughed from a hospital in Farmville, VA for another 40 days on 7 August 1863. He was retired for disability on 29 November 1864.

In 1870 he was a farm worker in Carrollton in Carrol County, GA but by 1880 he was working his own place there. His right leg wound was still open when he filed for a Confederate pension in Carroll County in 1889. In 1900 he was retired and living with his daughter Mary (Williams) and her family in Carroll County but by 1910 he was farming again, at Villa Rica, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Asa Wood. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and his 1889 pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/10/1842; Carroll County, GA

09/05/1916; Carroll County, GA; burial in Cross Plains Baptist Church Cemetery, Cross Plains, GA