Fitzgerald enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 27, 1861. In May of 1862, he was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA for "debility" and sent to to the holpital in Farmville, VA in June and July of 1862 with a fever. He was in the Farmville hospital again in March of 1864 with an unknown ailment. He was promoted to corporal. By the time of his parole at Burkeville, VA on April 21, 1865, he was a corporal.
In 1870, he was teaching in Panola County, MS, where his elder brothers had moved. By 1880, he had returned to Nottoway County and was teaching.
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