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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles Ford, Jr.

(c. 1845 - 1893)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A blacksmith's son, in 1860 he was an unmarried 15 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings in Montgomery, AL. Giving his age as 18 and occupation as blacksmith, he enlisted there on 19 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably retired to the Invalid Corps in December 1864 and signed a parole at Montgomery, AL on 13 May 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a day laborer living with his parents and by then 8 siblings in Montgomery, AL.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1845 in AL

Death

01/02/1893; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL

Notes

1 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 32498]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32499]

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