Asa G. Buise

In 1860 he was a 31 year old farmer near Flint Hill in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted and mustered in Carroll County, GA on 15 August 1861 as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US Army 6th Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD but died of his wounds there on 21 October 1862. He was originally buried "close along the fence on west side of woods back of graveyard in Burkettsville [Burkittsviile, Maryland]."

His widow Mary N Buise filed for his final pay of $87.70 in May 1863, and she was paid in January 1864.

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as A.J. Bice. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as Asa H Byce and A.G. Bys. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Mary Nix McWhorter (1830-1899) in 1846 and they had 7 children. He may have been born Asa G Bice.

06/1827 in SC

10/21/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD