ABERNATHY, Nathaniel Macon, Co. G, 10th AL. Inf. Age 18 yrs. Enlisted: 6/4/61, Where: Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Al. C.M.R: Present at Drainsville, Va. 12/20/61; present Siege of Yorktown 4/1862; present Williamsburg, Va. 5/5/62; present Seven Pines 5/30/62; present Battles before Richmond 6/27-30/62. Died in battle Frazier's Farm Jun. 30, 1862, While faithfully discharging his duties. Died from Gunshot Wound of Chest. Occupation: Student at the University of Alabama. Born 8/7/1842.∼Private, Company G, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, CSA

On May 20, 1862, Capt. T. W. Francis requested that Private Macon Abernathy be detailed as a clerk to him, as he had not been able to find a young man to perform the duties satisfactorily. Private Abernathy had been on duty with him during his term of office as A.C.S., and he found Abernathy "verry efficient and reliable, and is thoroughly acquainted with the duties."
Source: Macon Abernathey, Confederate Civil War Service Records, fold3.

Private Macon Abernathy, age 18, enlisted on June 4, 1861, in Alabama. He was present at the Battle of Dranesville, Virginia, December 20, 1861; Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, April 1862; Williamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1862; Seven Pines, Virginia, May 30, 1862; Battle before Richmond, Virginia, June 27, 1862; and was killed in action at the Battle of Frazier's Farm.
Source: Alabama Civil War Soldiers, 1860–1865, on-line.

DIED.
At the hospital at Richmond on Tuesday, the 1st day of July, 1862, Macon Abernathy, son of Miles W. Abernathy of Calhoun county, Ala., of a wound received on the previous day. He was born 7th August, 1842, aged 19 years, 10 months and 24 days.
Deceased was a youth of unusual amiableness and gentleman, to which was ambled a firmness of character and purpose. Although an only son of his parents, and six doting sisters, he was too amiable to be spoiled by the indulgence of the former or the —?— of the latter.
When the war broke out, he was a student of the University of Alabama. But impressed with the duty he owed his country in the day of her peril, he laid aside his books and volunteered as a member of the Pope Walker Guards, company C, in the 10th Regt. He faithfully served his regiment from its organization to the day of his death. Faithful to his officers and mess preserving amid the temptations of a soldier's life, all the parity and gentleness of his character. He was in the battle on Friday, where many of his companions were wounded and killed and went through unhurt. His zeal and energies in the forward marches, were frequently restrained by his kind and generous captain. With the same cravenness, on Monday, he was in the foremost ranks, when a ball entering his breast, he fell. He survived until the next day, having been conveyed to the city. There in the hospital a soul left the body of as noble a boy as ever lived.
—Jacksonville Republican (Jacksonville, Alabama), July 17, 1862, p. 3.