(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Oglethorpe County, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 6th Georgia Infantry on 6 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action in Maryland, probably at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD but died there of his wounds on 14 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet} cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Death
10/14/1862; 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 4794]
2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 24744]
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 #9.615 [AotW citation 24745]