[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. H. Orndoff

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County, TX as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 31 March 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 detailed to the regimental Commissary or as a teamster from 27 November 1862 to at least August 1864, he last muster roll in his file. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as J.H. Orendoff, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Polley 3 has him as J.H. Orendorff.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1907]

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 26921]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 330 [AotW citation 26922]

« Search for another Person