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(c. 1845 - ?)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Chilesburg, Caroline County, VA on 21 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 30th Virginia Infantry. He was elected First Corporal on 4 November and promoted to Sergeant by September 1862.
On the Campaign
He 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, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was officially exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 1 January 1864 and was captured at Petersburg, VA on 5 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 19 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer near Central Point in Caroline County, VA. He applied for a Confederate pension in in December 1902, then living in Chilesburg, VA.
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, the US Census of 1870, and his pension application at the Library of Virginia, Richmond.
He married Hausie J Coleman (1840-) and they had 3 children between 1970 and 1885.
Birth
c. 1845 in 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 34501]
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: #297 [AotW citation 34502]