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(1838 - 1912)
Home State: Tennessee
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Tennessee Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 31 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company L of the 14th Tennessee 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 to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and back with his Company by December 1862.
He was captured in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and enlisted in the First Connecticut Cavalry, mustering as a Private in Company F on 26 October 1863. He deserted the unit almost immediately, on 8 December 1863, with no later military record found.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Montgomery County, TN. In January 1885 he moved to Bear Creek in Stewart County, TN and he farmed there to at least 1910.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Ingersoll.2 He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Isabella Ferdinand Cherry (1842-1923) in May 1859 and they had 11 children, 9 of them boys.
Birth
05/13/1838; Montgomery County, TN
Death
07/25/1912; Bear Spring, TN; burial in Hillcrest Cemetery, Dover, TN
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 34975]
2 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, p. 86 [AotW citation 34977]
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: #132 [AotW citation 34976]