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(1839 - 1875)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old express messenger living with his parents in Athens, GA; his father William was Clerk of the Town Council. He enlisted in Athens on 10 June 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 leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on furlough home from 13 November to 17 March 1863. He was wounded again, at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864. He was on light duty in Athens by February 1865 and was captured and paroled there on 8 May 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a retail grocer in Athens, living with his brother Albert, a dry goods merchant, and other siblings.
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 and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Bessie Talmadge (1850-1895) in February 1868 and they had 2 children.
Birth
04/01/1839; Athens, GA
Death
02/24/1875; Athens, GA; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens,
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2841]
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 30537]