Fitzgerald (not to be confused with William Tazewell Fitzgerald who served in the same company) enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 3rd VA Cavalry on April 20, 1864. He was wounded at Mitchell's Shop in Caroline County,VA on May 9, 1864 and was admitted to Winder hospital in Richmond, VA on May 13, 1864. he was hospitalized again in August 1864 at Farmville, VA to recover from "measles, debility and cough" and the record inidcates he was not yet recovered from his wound in May. He was paroled in Nottoway County, VA on April 20, 1865.
He returned to Nottoway County, VA after the war, where he was a farmer in 1870.
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