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(1840 - 1917)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company B, 6th Georgia Infantry on 17 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was severely wounded in the hips at Petersburg, VA in 1864 and lost the middle finger of his left hand and was shot in the leg, both at Ft. Harrison, VA on 30 September 1864. He surrendered at Greensboro, NC on 26 April 1865.
References & notes
Service information from Henderson.1 His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list for the regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862.
Birth
04/08/1840; McMinn County, TN
Death
02/28/1917; Dayton, TN; burial in Wildwood Cemetery, Wildwood, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 763 [AotW citation 21128]