(1838 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 50th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862 in Quitman, GA.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was issued a parole at Boonsboro, MD on 3 October and was then a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 17 October, when he was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was back with his Company by December 1862. He was surrendered and paroled at Thomasville, GA on 19 May 1865.
References & notes
Birth
1838
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2957]
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 27795]