Ezekiel Chandler Mason

Age 22, he enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Decatur, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

He was wounded in the leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, probably then serving on the color guard.

He transferred on 1 January 1863 to Company A - the Fulton Dragoons - of Cobb's Legion Cavalry Battalion. He was wounded again, by a pice of shell to his left shoulder at Upperville, VA on 21 June 1863 and on furlough home. He was noted as without a horse as of 12 July 1863 and had not returned to his company by October 1864, the latest record in his military file.

By 1870 he was a farm hand at Marietta in Cobb County, GA and in 1880 was a laborer in DeKalb County, GA. He applied for a Georgia allowance in DeKalb County due to his disabled left arm in December 1887. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Hall County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Crampton's Gap wound detail from a partial casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 16 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and his 1887 and 1889 pension applications. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amelia G Childress (1836-1913) in January 1865 and they had 6 children.

04/16/1839 in GA

10/11/1916; burial in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery #02, Buford, GA