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(c. 1835 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 51st Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 25 year old farm worker living with his parents on their farm at Powers in Terrell County, GA. He mustered as Private, Company F, 51st Georgia Infantry, date not found.
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 Fredrick, MD but died there of wounds on 27 September 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of, and in the cemetery [Mt Olivet] at Frederick."
His mother Sarah filed a claim for his final pay in February 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Further information from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, and the US Census of 1860. He has memorial stones [via Findagrave] at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, and may still be buried there.
Birth
c. 1835 in NC
Death
09/27/1862; 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 4955]
2 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 #9.584 [AotW citation 19645]
3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34851]