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(1833 - 1908)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company M, First Texas Infantry when they organized in Trinity County, and mustered for Confederate service as Private on 5 May 1862 at Sumpter, TX. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 10 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Colonel Work later reported:
During the engagement I saw four bearers of our State colors shot down, to wit: First, John Hanson, Company L; second, James Day, Company M; third, Charles H. Kingsley, Company L, and, fourth, James K. Malone, Company A. After the fall of these, still others raised the colors until four more bearers were shot down ...
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and paid there in October, but by December 1862 he was listed as absent without leave and reduced to Private. There is no later military record.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer in Robertson County, TX and by 1900 was a day laborer in Tyler County, TX.
References & notes
His service from Davis,1 Simpson,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Julia Hobbs (1838-) in Butler County, AL in August 1859 and they had a son and 6 daughters.
Birth
04/1833 in AL
Death
01/05/1908; Houston County, TX; burial in Enon Cemetery, Hagerville, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pg. 143 [AotW citation 1592]
2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 85 [AotW citation 21075]
3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33701]