Birthplace is shown in records as Augusta, Paulding County, Georgia; present-day Augusta is not in Paulding County, although (perhaps) it may have been at time of birth. Married on November 3, 1859 , to Sarah Jane West in Pickens County, Alabama. (Sarah was born on December 13, 1842 in Pickens County, Alabama, and died on March 8, 1926 in Chattanooga). Enlisted in army in 1862. Battles: Corinth, Farmington, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. Paroled at Augusta, Georgia on May 1, 1865. Moved to Tennessee in 1881. Died at age 87 at home on Dodds Avenue.