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(? - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 19 year old unmarried clerk in Camden, AL, he he mustered as Corporal, Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry on 2 September 1861. He was appointed Adjutant and 2nd Lieutenant on 1 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD, but died there of wounds on 10 October. He was originally buried "along the west side and in [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick [Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Death
10/10/1862; 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 4928]
2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/civilwar/index.cfm>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=168820, /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=16 [AotW citation 20072]
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 #9.605 [AotW citation 20073]