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(1825 - 1919)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company F, 6th Alabama Infantry in May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 18 October 1862 and was transferred to Baltimore, probably for exchange, on 20 October. He was furloughed in November 1862 and appears in Company reports later in the War.
References & notes
Pruett1 has him as T.J. Ward, a Campaign fatality buried in the Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD. Service details from the Alabama Civil War Service Database (Alabama Department of Archives and History). Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Further information from family genealogists.
Birth
06/08/1825; Dale County, AL
Death
07/01/1919; Bruce, FL; burial in Antioch Cemetery, Bruce, FL
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 5017]
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 #1.137 [AotW citation 25674]