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(c. 1837 - ?)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old merchant at Valdosta in Lowndes County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 50th Georgia Infantry. He was captured, place not given, on parole in June, and absent, sick, into August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to duty in about February 1863.
He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 24 March (to date from 4 January) 1864. He was with his company to about February 1865, then "in arrest," charges not found. He was captured and paroled at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA in April 1865.
After the War
He operated a barroom on North Ashley Street in Valdosta, GA to at least 1870, but by 1880 was a horse dealer there, and lived with his sister Sarah (c. 1840-).
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed under Simon B Lester. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1880 and Thannie Wisenbaker's manuscript View of Valdosta 1863 (c. 1933).
Birth
c. 1837 in GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 3027]
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 34830]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #49 [AotW citation 34831]