Guilford Register

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer on his father-in-law Barzilla Douglas's place at Magnolia in Clinch County, GA. He enlisted in Brunswick, GA on 23 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F (later C) of the 13th Georgia Infantry. On about 10 May 1862 they were re-designated Company D of the 26th Georgia Infantry.

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 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 to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded in action near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1863. He was captured again, on 20 May 1864 at Spotsylvania, VA and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 3 July, then sent to Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and was released on 30 July 1865.

His wife Sarah had remarried in his absence and in 1870 he was farming with his new wife and family at Homerville in Clinch County, GA. By 1880 he was a farm worker at White Springs in Hamilton County, FL and in 1900 was a sharecropper in Columbia County, Fl.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via 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 Sarah Douglas (1840-) in June 1854 and they had 2 daughters, one died in infancy. Sarah remarried in his absence at war. He married again, Rebecca Jane Avera (1841-1906) and they had 8 children between 1866 and 1883.

07/04/1834 in GA

09/17/1903; Columbia County, FL; burial in Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Lake City, FL