Alban W. Weaver

In 1860 he was a 46 year old merchant in Atlanta, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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

He was on furlough in Atlanta and received pay there on 18 October 1862. He was detailed as an examiner to the CS Passport Office in Atlanta by July 1863 and to at least September. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 2 May 1864.

By 1870 he was a dry goods merchant at Cochrane in Pulaski Count, GA and in 1880 he was a clerk in a saloon there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound detail from a partial casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 16 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Ann Armistead (1814-1870) in March 1836 and they had 7 children. He married again, Roxey Ann Walker (-1884) in June 1880.

His son Reuben A Weaver (1839-1905) was also in Company C of the Legion.

c. 1814; Putnam County, GA

07/01/1886; Orlando, FL; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Cochran, GA