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(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was a Private in Company K, 16th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September.
The rest of the War
He appears on a list of wounded prisoners paroled after Crampton's Gap by order of Major General Franklin, 6th Army Corps. He was admitted to a USA field hospital in Burkittsville, MD dangerously "ill in the side" and died there on 1 October 1862. Probably originally buried in Burkittsville and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1.
Death
10/01/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4499]