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Archibald was born in 1826 in Laurens District, South Carolina. He is the son of Joseph Dollar and Hannah Prater. He moved with his family in 1832 when he was a boy to Meriwether County, Georgia. His father had purchased 202 and one half acres in the 7th District of Meriwether at the county line with Troup. Archibald lived with his parents and siblings on the plantation there. His father died in June of the next year, 1833. Arch lived with his widowed mother and his siblings. He was living with his mother and younger brother in Meriwether County in 1850. His mother died in 1853. Arch was named in the disposition of his father's estate in 1856. Arch later moved to Harris County, Georgia near Hamilton. He was an overseer in Harris County in 1860.
War came to the South and to Georgia in April of 1861.
Arch enlisted March 4th of 1862 in Company K of the 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment.
MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY K, 35th REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ARMY OF TENNESSEE C. S. A. HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA "HARRIS GUARDS"
The 35th Regiment, Georgia Infantry was organized at Atlanta, Georgia and mustered into Confederate service at Richmond, Virginia in October, 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Troup, Haralson, Bartow, Walton, Chattooga, Harris, and Gwinnett. The regiment was first assigned to General French's Brigade and in April, 1862, had a force of 545 effectives. Later the regiment served under Generals Pettigrew, J.R. Anderson, and E.L. Thomas, Army of Northern Virginia and fought in numerous battles from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, during the long Petersburg siege south of the James River, and was surrendered at Appomattox with 15 officers and 121 men. The regiment sustained 70 casualties at Second Manassas, 89 at Fredericksburg, and 33 at Chancellorsville. Of the 331 engaged at Gettysburg, more than twenty-five percent were killed or wounded. The field officers were Colonels Bolling H. Holt and Edward L. Thomas; Lieutenant Colonels Gustavus A. Bull, W.H. McCullons, and Edward L. Thomas; and Majors William L. Groves, J.T. McElvany, and Lee A. J. Williams.
Arch was a Prisoner of War captured at Petersburg, Virginia on April 2nd of 1865 and sent to Ft. Delaware. Arch was released on June 16th of 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance. After his release he was admitted to the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky on the 21st of June with Dysentery. He was discharged from the hospital on the 26th.
Arch survived the war and returned to life in Harris County. He was living in Harris County at Hamilton Post Office in 1870 and worked as a miller. He was still living near Hamilton in Harris County in 1880. Arch has a farm of 660 acres in 1890 in Hamilton and District 672 per tax records. He had three employed on his farm. He was still living in District 672, Hamilton in 1900. A Martin Adams and his wife Martha were living with him per the census of 1900. The census indicates that he was his nephew.
His date and place of death and burial are not known.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/harris/military/civilwar/rosters/cok35reg.txt
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