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(1844 - 1918)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 3 slaves on their farm near Lawrenceville in Gwinnett County, GA. He enlisted in Gwinnett County on 16 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 24th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
His arm was amputated and he was paroled on 27 September and transferred for exchange, date not given. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 14 October and furloughed home for 60 days on 18 October, then discharged for disability on a Surgeon's Certificate of 15 December 1862.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm laborer at Lawrenceville, GA but by 1880 was teaching school there. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a teacher at Princeton in Clarke County, GA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 18 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his second middle name as Jasper, and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Ewing (1846-1926) in September 1864 and they had 7 children, their first named Robert Lee Bramblett (1868-1928).
Birth
06/05/1844; Gwinnett County, GA
Death
04/04/1918; Princeton, GA; burial in Princeton United Methodist Church Cemetery, Princeton, 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 35098]