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(c. 1831 - ?)
Home State: Florida
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Florida Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 28 year old student living with his widowed mother Martha and 2 younger sisters on their small farm in Suwannee County, FL. He enlisted at Houston in Suwannee County on 15 May 1862 and mustered there the same day as a Private in Company C, 8th Florida 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 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 and was on furlough into January 1863.
He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was treated in hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA. He was home on furlough from June into October 1863 and afterward with his company to December 1864, when he was listed as absent, sick in a "field infirmary" - the latest record in his military file.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Soldiers,2 which says he was captured at Chancellorsville. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; I could not find him in post-war US Census records.
Birth
c. 1831; Liberty County, GA
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 34924]
2 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, p. 194 [AotW citation 34926]
3 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: #77 [AotW citation 34925]