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(? - 1865)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was in the steam saw and lumber mill business in Houston County, GA before the War; he had moved there from Macon County, NC a few years before. He enlisted in Company C, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861 and was appointed 5th Corporal, date not given. He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant (or 3rd Lieutenant) on 5 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and promoted to First Lieutenant to date from the same day.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain in January 1865 but was killed at Bentonville, NC on 18 March 1865.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson.1. Details from Wendell D. Croom's The War History of Company "C", Sixth Georgia Regiment (1879).
Birth
Date not known in NC
Death
03/18/1865; Bentonville, NC
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 769 [AotW citation 9577]