Aquilla M. Farrer

In 1860 he was a 26 year old well digger at Louisville in Jefferson County, GA. He enlisted at Augusta, GA on 1 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, the Wright Legion. They became Company G, 38th Georgia Infantry in April 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was back with his company by December 1862 but on a furlough of indulgence in February and March 1863. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July and captured at South Mountain, MD on the retreat on 5 July. He was in a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 7 July, at Fort Mc Henry in Baltimore, then sent to Fort Delaware on 9 (or 12) July. He was a prisoner there to 7 March 1865, then exchanged, and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 11 March. He was furloughed on 15 March for 30 days with no later military record.

By 1880 he was a farmer in DeKalb County, AL but in 1900 he was farming in Bartow County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900; a family bible, source of his birth date, has him as Aquilla M Farrow. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Rebecca Russell (1835-1875) in October 1856 and they had twin sons Noah and Joshua (b. 1859). He married again Frances Johnson (1828-1875) in 1870 in Alabama and they had 2 more sons.

His brother Garvin was also in Company G and with him in Maryland, but was left in Frederick and captured.

04/10/1832; Jefferson County, GA

10/04/1916; Moxley, GA; burial in Moxley Baptist Church Cemetery, Jefferson County, GA