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(1834 - 1903)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 5 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to duty with his Company and was slightly wounded in the knee at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and captured there. He was treated and/or was a nurse in the Plank's Farm hospital on the field to about 23 July, then was in the DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor to 28 August 1863, when he was transferred for exchange. He was afterward in a hospital in Richmond until sent back to his Company on 13 September. Beginning 1 November 1863 and up to the last muster roll available - for August 1864 - he was listed as absent without leave in Mississippi or Texas.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer in Copiah County, MS. In 1900 he was farming in Tangipahoa Parish, LA.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Gettysburg wound detail from the Buseys.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married the twice-widowed Julia Adelaide Neylans (was Stringer and Stamps, 1834-1872) in 1864 and they had 5 children. He married again, Mary Louise Kinchen (1839-1924) and they had 3 more.
Birth
06/04/1834 in MS
Death
11/04/1903; in LA; burial in Durbin Cemetery, Tangipahoa, LA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1674]
2 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 26612]
3 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, pg. 1424 [AotW citation 26613]