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"Dick"
(1840 - 1924)
Home State: Georgia
Education: University of Georgia, Class of 1860
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old student living with his widowed mother in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 25 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Georgia Infantry on 30 June in Portsmouth, VA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his left hand, losing his middle finger, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on furlough from 14 October to 14 December 1862. He transferred to Company E, 15th Georgia Infantry on 6 August 1863 and was detailed to the Quartermaster's Department as QUartermaster Sergeant. He was captured on the march at Dandridge, TN on 22 (or 24) January 1864 and a prisoner at Rock Island, IL until released on 21 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Sparta in Hancock County, GA. In 1910 he was listed as a moneylender there.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Sharpsburg wound detail is from a piece in the Athens Southern Banner of 1 October 1862, thanks to Laura Elliott. Personal details from family genealogists, the Catalogue,3 and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Martha Catherine "Kate" Rucker (1844-1882) in August 1865 and they had 7 children. He married again, the widow Leila Hurt Mabbett (1861-1933) in July 1897.
Birth
11/27/1840; Athens, GA
Death
03/02/1924; Sparta, GA; burial in Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2839]
2 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 30538]
3 University of Georgia, Board of Trustees, Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, 1785-1906, Athens: E.D. Stone Press, 1906, p. 77 [AotW citation 30539]