FURNY/Furney/Fern/Turney/J METTS/Mertz/Mattes, Private, (Old) Company D, 5th Regiment Alabama Infantry,* enlisted March 15, 1861 at Pineville, Ala. by Giles Goode for 1 year, recorded on the Sep/Oct, 1861 muster roll as sick in hospital, Manassas, subsequently recorded as 4th Corporal and absent,wounded at Chancellorsville, Va. May 2/3, 1863, captured July 1/2, 1863 at Gettysburg, confined Fort McHenry, Md. July 5, sent to Fort Delaware, Del., prison, July 7, 1863, transferred October 26 to Point Lookout, Md., admitted Hammond U. S. General Hospital, October 28, Typhoid Fever, sent to G. H. March 3, 1864, transferred to Major J. E. Mulford, Asst. Agt. for Exchange, n.d., furloughed April 9, recorded present June 30, 1864, wounded October 19, 1864, leg amputated, left in hands of the enemy, captured at Cedar Creek, Va., admitted U. S. A. General Hospital, West's Buildings, Baltimore, Md. October 23, age 31, gunshot wound, cannon ball, left leg/through lower portion of femur, below knee, amputated lower 1/3 anterior and port flap aperatia [sp?], still under treatment December 31, transferred to G. H. February 10, 1865, sent to Fort McHenry, Md., transferred to Point Lookout, Md. for exchange February 20, 1865, admitted Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Va. March 5, furloughed 60 days March 9, admitted
C. S. A. General Hospital No. 11, Charlotte, North Carolina March 21, 1865, furloughed April 4, 1865
* This company subsequently became New Company C, 5th Alabama Infantry
M311: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama