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(1842 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company G (renamed F), 5th Alabama Infantry on 10 April 1861. He was sick in hospital at Culpeper, VA in October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh and captured in action at Turner's Gap on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled (no date) and exchanged 8 October 1862. He was again wounded and captured, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was at the DeCamp Hospital in New York Harbor, and paroled there, date not given. He was exchanged in February 1864, but killed in action on 21 August 1864 near Charlestown, VA (now WV).
References & notes
Birth
1842
Death
08/21/1864; near Charlestown, WV; burial in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, AL
1 Fry, Anna M. Gayle, Memories of Old Cahaba, Nashville (Tenn): Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905, pp. 109 - 120 [AotW citation 9419]
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: various [AotW citation 15788]
3 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, pp. 53-54 [AotW citation 15789]