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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 51st Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 19, he mustered as Private, Company E, 51st Georgia Infantry on 1 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD of wounds and typhoid fever on 6 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett1. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD and has markers there [via Findagrave], and may still be buried there.
Birth
c. 1843
Death
10/06/1862; Frederick, 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 4772]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19644]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.599 [AotW citation 19646]