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(c. 1836 - 1865)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 38th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
His father died when he was about 13 and in 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his widowed mother and 4 siblings on their small farm in Jefferson County, GA. He enlisted at Savannah, GA on 15 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 38th Georgia 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 19 September and was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange by 27 September. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 October, was formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty on 27 November 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right side, date and place not given, and admitted to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 February 1865. He died there on 8 February.
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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann Elizabeth Stewart (later Davis, 1839-1916) and they had 2 children (born May 1861, October 1862).
Birth
c. 1836; Jefferson County, GA
Death
02/08/1865; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, 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 34596]
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: #146 [AotW citation 34597]