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(1833 - 1881)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as 2nd (or 3rd) Sergeant, Company B, 50th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862 at Waresboro.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a Richmond hospital on 11 October and furloughed for 40 days on 23 October 1862. He was wounded again, in action at Cold Harbor, VA on 1 June 1864 and sent home on wounded furlough. He was listed as absent without leave in Ware County by November 1864, by then reduced to Private, and did not return to his unit.
References & notes
His service from Henderson's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia transcribed by Ray Fincham1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3, as Noah Pitman. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Ann Agee (1845-1914) in 1864 and they had 7 children.
His younger brother Moses (b. 1842) was also in Company B and was killed at Petersburg, VA on 21 July 1964. Noah named his firstborn Moses Virginia Pittman (1866-1941).
Birth
10/14/1833; Ware County, GA
Death
06/22/1881; Ware County, GA; burial in Suwannee Chapel Church of God of Prophecy Cemetery, Manor, GA
1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /georgia/infantry/50th_inf_regt.html [AotW citation 3069]