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(1841 - 1923)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Seguin as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 25 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was often in hospitals in Richmond, VA, sick, between December 1862 and April 1863. He was appointed 4th Corporal by January 1864 and promoted to 3rd Corporal by June. He was with his Company through at least November 1864, the last record on file.
After the War
In 1870 he was a house carpenter at Madisonville, Madison County, TX, and in 1880 a carpenter in Somervell County. From about 1887 to at least 1900 he was working his trade in Waco, but by 1910, still a carpenter, he was in Fort Worth.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 as E.J. Parent, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Missouri Elida Sparks (1851-1939) in August 1867 in Harris County and they had 6 children.
Birth
11/21/1841; Aberdeen, MS
Death
05/01/1923; Fort Worth, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1744]
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 26842]