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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 19 year old farmer at Huntsville, AL, he enlisted there on 26 April 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 7 May as a Private in Company F, 4th Alabama 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 afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 9 October and sent to the parole camp there on 19 October. He was furloughed for 30 days, but did not return until about February 1863. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 19 September 1863 and furloughed home, but did not return, and was dropped from the unit roll as a deserter on 29 February 1864.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1842 in AL
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 34631]
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: #283 [AotW citation 34632]