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(1831 - 1908)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer near Clayton in the Tallulah District of Rabun County, GA. He enlisted in Richmond, VA in May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 24th Georgia Infantry. He transferred to Company E, date not found.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and was paroled in Maryland on 24 September. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA by 11 October and furloughed for 30 days on 5 November. He was back in a Richmond hospital on 11 February 1863 with no later record with the 24th Georgia Infantry.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a farmer at Clayton, GA. In 1880 he was a mechanic in Towns County, GA but by 1900 was farming in Clay County, NC. He was back at Hiawassee in Towns County, GA in 1905.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, and Henderson.2 He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his 1905 pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Lovell (he spelled it Lovel).
He married Elizabeth Frances Jarrard (1834-1895) in October 1853 and they had 8 children. He married again, Mary A. Meece (1850-) in May 1899.
Birth
05/05/1831; Rabun County, GA
Death
12/23/1908; Hiawassee, GA; burial in Enotah Baptist Church Cemetery, Towns County, GA
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 34265]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 34266]
3 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: #39 [AotW citation 34267]