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(1834 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 27 year old merchant in Covington in Newton County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 6 May 1862 in Coweta County and he was elected First Lieutenant of his Company on 29 May.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He died on Elias Grove's Farm near Sharpsburg and was buried on the field; date not given.
After the War
He was probably reinterred in the Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from the Roster,2 which says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg on 17 September, and his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives, online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Frances Elizabeth Reynolds (1836-1891) in October 1855 in Newton County and they had 4 children.
Birth
1834; Covington, GA
Death
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 4585]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 13783]