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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Fleming Freeman

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

His father died when he was about 9 years old. In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old day laborer living with farmer Martin B Echols and his family at Realtown in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and "was shot through the bowels and killed several paces in front of his command, cheering them on" at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widowed mother Martha filed a claim for his final pay in February 1863 and was probably paid in November 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. He was possibly named for his great-uncle Fleming Fontaine Freeman (1791-1875), a wealthy slaveholding planter and minister.

Birth

c. 1843 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32505]

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 32506]

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