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(1833 - 1867)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Georgia Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Sharpsburg
He was a clerk in Atlanta before the war and was appointed Captain of Company A, 19th Georgia Infantry on 11 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He took command of the regiment at Second Manassas in absence of all the field officers, again briefly just before the Maryland campaign, and after the Antietam battle at the skirmish at the Potomac crossing near Shepherdstown.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission in the 19th Georgia on 1 June 1863 and was commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, CSA on 24 September 1863 and assigned to the staff of General Howell Cobb. He was detailed to the post of Atlanta on 2 February 1865 with no further record.
References & notes
Birth
1833 in SCOTLAND
Death
08/17/1867; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19413]
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 31897]