George Martin Holcomb was married when he enlisted at age 19 in Carroll County Georgia,he was captured at Vicksburg. After the war he was a Primitive Baptist Minister near Berlin in Cullman County Alabama.
Did he practice feet washing?
I've read numerous accounts of men who had fought in the war and then became preachers. A large majority of them Baptist for some reason...I had an ancestor who did the same. His father and three brothers and hinself....one of those brothers my 2x grandfather...all fought in the war, the father was killed but the boys survived. Three of the brothers however did not survive a clan feud in the next two years. All three would die in their twenties. The youngest one experienced a religious conversion and got the call to preach. He lived to be up in his eighties. So he not only reaped spiritual rewards but a temporal one as well....oh yes unlike most of the men I've read about he became a Methodist...