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(c. 1839 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A shoemaker's son, in 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings at Unionville in Monroe County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 14th Georgia Infantry, date not found.
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 5 October then probably sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange. He died in a hospital in Staunton, VA on 13 April 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839 in GA
Death
04/13/1863; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA
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 34125]
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: #417 [AotW citation 34126]