Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry, date not given. He was sick n a Petersburg, VA hospital in April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Boonsboro, MD, date not given.
After the War
He was originally buried "in Mrs. Hoffman's barn field near Boonsboro, 150 yards N. W. of the barn" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Birth
Date not known in AL
Death
Date not known; Boonsboro, 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 4866]
2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_a.html [AotW citation 25478]