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(1838 - 1901)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old overseer on the Thomas M Harkness plantation (35 slaves) at Jackson in Butts County, GA. He enlisted in Atlanta, GA on 12 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company I, 14th Georgia Infantry. He was promoted to First Sergeant in 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in Maryland and was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was captured again, on 12 May 1864 at Mine Run, VA, and was again a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 20 May to 7 March 1865, when he was exchanged.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Griffin in Spalding County, GA but by 1880 and to at least 1900 was farming in DeKalb County, AL. In 1882 he applied for a post office for the community of Johnson (formerly Lee), now part of Geraldine, AL, and was postmaster there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Frances “Nanny” Blisset (1836-1923) in July 1866 and they had 4 children.
Birth
08/17/1838; Butts County, GA
Death
04/12/1901; DeKalb County, AL; burial in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery #1, Geraldine, AL
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34123]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #425 [AotW citation 34124]