Aaron Gibson Grier

In 1860 he was a 27 year old merchant living in Joseph Thompson's Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, GA. He enrolled on 1 August 1861 in Decatur, GA and mustered on 5 August as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion. He was elected First Lieutenant on 1 October 1861.

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

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 6 October and was in Atlanta by 15 October. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 30 November 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and his left leg was amputated at the thigh the same day. He was promoted to Captain on 8 May (to date from 13 July 1862), but was furloughed home to Decatur on 20 July 1863, disabled for further service with his company. He was officially retired to the Invalid Corps on 24 February 1865.

He met frequently with former Confederate Vice-President and cousin, Alexander H Stephens in Atlanta when Stephens was held there as a prisoner immediately after the war in May 1865 (Stephens' mother was a Grier).

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Crampton's Gap capture also on a partial casualty list he provided to the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 16 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens (1910). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Mary Frances Green Wilson (1840-1896) in December 1868.

He was probably one of 3 sons of Brigadier General Aaron W Grier, Jr (1794-1864) and Elizabeth Perry (1796-1847); the General's mother was Jean Gibson. Alexander Stephens lived with Aaron W Grier and family, as ward, after he was orphaned at age 14 in 1826.

02/08/1833 in GA

12/01/1889; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA