Bernhardt Ashe

In 1860 he was a 19 year old clerk living in Sarah Callahan's boarding house in Calhoun, GA. He enlisted in Rome, GA on 24 June 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 2 July as a Private in Captain Hamilton's Company of Georgia Infantry. Originally part of Mercer's 4th Battalion, they became Company B of the 21st Georgia Infantry on 5 September 1861.

He was discharged from the army for disability from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 11 November 1861, but remained in the hospital into March 1862 then rejoined his company. He was back in a hospital in July.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD sick by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 18 September, with no later hospital or POW record. He was listed by his regiment as a deserter at Frederick in December 1862 with nothing afterward. It is likely he died in Maryland.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, indexed under Bernard Ash. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

c. 1841 in PRUSSIA