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(1835 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer at Bainbridge in Decatur County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, Georgia State Troops on 8 October 1861 and mustered out on 8 April 1862. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company F, 50th Georgia Infantry on 5 May.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 which fractured his humerus (upper arm) and scapula (shoulder blade).
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD about 25 September 1862 and a surgeon excised (removed) the broken head of his humerus on 26 September. He died from bleeding on 14 (or 4 or 6) October 1862.
References & notes
Birth
11/19/1835 in GA
Death
10/14/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 3058]
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 32171]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 542 [AotW citation 32172]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.613 [AotW citation 32173]