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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer along with his brother William on their widowed mother's place at Monticello in Jasper County, GA. He enlisted in Atlanta as a Private in Company D, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds the same day. He was originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond and north of the road leading to his house." His mother Mary Elizabeth filed for his final pay in April 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His brother William Henry (b. 1838), also in Company D, died at Yorktown, VA in November 1861.
Birth
1841; Jasper County, GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4966]
2 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 30014]