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- Baptized 11/21/1830 in the Old Dutch Meeting House, Washington County, TN Enrolled as a Private in the Confederate Army for 3 years at Decatur, Meigs County, TN in Company A., 26th Regiment of the Tennessee Infantry. Was wounded on January 2, 1863 and sent to the hospital at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Was wounded agai n at the Battle of Murfreesboro. The muster roll call of February 1864 remarks that he had deserted 1/27/1864. The roll of Rebel Deserters lists him as released 2/4/1864 upon taking the oath of Allegiance on that date. Sometime in 1863, his family moved to Roane County, Tennessee where he paid poll taxes there in 1864.
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