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(1831 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 31 year old carpenter in Dalton, GA. He enlisted as 4th Corporal of Company H, 18th Georgia Infantry on 13 June 1861 at Camp McDonald, Kennesaw, GA. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862 and was in a hospital in Dalton, GA on 7 August.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 with no later military record.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, who have his death on 16 September 1862 at Sharpsburg, and the US Census of 1860.
He married Elizabeth Ann Head (1832-1910) and they had 4 children between 1853 and 1858.
Birth
04/19/1831; Dalton, GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 9507]
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 27760]