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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old laborer living with his parents and 2 brothers on their small farm at Chilesburg in Caroline County, VA. He enlisted there on 21 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 30th Virginia Infantry.
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 about 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 afterward with his company to at least June 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Ashland, VA on 1 May 1865, his occupation then noted as a shoemaker.
After the War
By 1880 he was a shoemaker in Fayette County, WV.
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 and the US Census of 1860 & 1880.
He married Hannah E Devenny (1849-) in Sepptember 1876 and they had at least 8 children between 1877 and 1890.
Birth
c. 1840 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 34503]
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: p. 296 [AotW citation 34504]