Scott was a farmer in Prince Edward County, VA when he enlisted as a sergeant in Co. K of the 3rd VA Cavalry on June 24, 1861. He was on furlough due to illness from January through at least March 1862. He was admitted to the hospital Richmond in January 1863 and transferred to Farmville, VA. In May 1863 his rank was listed as private. By September 1863 he was assigned to the quartermasters department in Prince Edward County. He was assigned this light duty based on chronic kidney diseases that deemed to likely be permanent by the medical board. By early 1865, he was supervising the government stables in Farmville. His pension application (see below) indicates he surrendered at Greensboro, NC with General Johnston.
Scott was a merchant in Mecklenburg County, VA in 1870. By 1880, he had returned to Prince Edward County where his occupation is listed as miller. In 1900, Scott was a coal dealer in Macon, GA. He appears in the 1910 census in Galveston, TX in the household of one of his sons. By 1915 he had returned to Georgia as he applied for a pension in the state of Georgia and listed his home as Atlanta. In the application, he indicated he had moved from Farmville, VA to Macon, GA in 1889, and that he was now blind. He died January 25, 1918 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Macon, GA.
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