Levi Lewis was born on November 20, 1827, in Madison County, Alabama, to Levi Lewis. His father was a farmer who owned $600 of real estate by 1850. He grew up in Madison County, and he married Elizabeth Caroline Derrick on November 27, 1856. The couple apparently had no children.

 

He enlisted in the Confederate army, and he mustered in as a private in Company F of the 35^th Alabama Infantry. The regiment took part in the Vicksburg campaign and the Atlanta campaign. Union forces eventually captured him, and he spent the final months of the war imprisoned at Camp Chase.

 

He returned to Madison County after the war, and he earned a living as a farmer. By 1870, he owned $1,000 of real estate and $450 of personal property. He applied for a Confederate pension from the state of Alabama in 1907, and a local doctor reported that he “has not been able to work any [for] 6 or 7 years but cut a little stove wood and has no children at all upon whom he can depend for anything at all.” He died in Madison County in November 1908 “after a long and painful illness.”

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