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(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Camp Stephens, GA as a Private in Company A, 61st Georgia Infantry on 27 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He died at the "White House" field hospital on the Line Farm at Sharpsburg, date not given, but before 2 October. He was originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond."
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1, as W. Bailey. His service from Henderson2, who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg on the 17th, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Death detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. His memorial is on Findagrave.
Death
09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4545]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 6, p. 204 [AotW citation 13258]
3 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 30016]