Phillip Dixon Shedd
Private, Company F, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, CSA
Born December 17, 1840 in Georgia
Promoted to Private March 4, 1862
Pension records show he was sent home with measles September 1862
"Relapsed, measles settled in eyes; almost blind since. Unable to return."
Died April 15, 1928
Buried at Sweetwater Baptist Church, 2305 Sweetwater Church Road, Hiram, Georgia