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(c. 1831 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 29 year old (probably farmer) near Sandersville in Washington County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 28th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was captured.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 6 November, then paroled and sent south for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 18 November and furloughed for 20 days on 5 December 1862. He was back with his company by the end of May 1863 and served with them to at least December 1863, with no later military record found.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Washington County, GA. In 1900 he was farming next door to his son Harris in Johnson County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900.
He married Elizabeth J "Lizzie" Layton (Warnock?, c. 1842-) in December 1856 and they had 6 children.
Birth
c. 1831 in 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 35034]