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