Fought as a Confederate Soldier in the Civil War with Company A, 4th GA Inf. Graduated Mercer University and worked as a lawyer
2nd Lt. The Southern Rifles, Talbot County, Co. A 4th Regt Ga Vol. Infantry
A Rockaway in Talbot Volume 1 by William H. Davidson pp.88-93 (History of Talbot County, Georgia)
History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., by Henry W. Thomas, The Franklin Printing Company, Atlanta, 1903
see: https://archive.org/details/historyofdolesco00thom
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