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(1841 - 1912)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He came to Texas from Louisiana sometime in the 1850s and was an 18 year old farmer on his father's place in Henderson County when he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 (or 15) July 1861.
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 appointed 3rd Corporal on 1 November 1862 and promoted to 2nd Corporal on 1 February 1863. He resigned as Corporal on 1 June 1863 and was again a Private. He was 2nd Corporal again by June 1864. He was captured on 29 September near Chattanooga, TN, took an oath of allegiance to the US at Clarksburg, WV on 5 October 1864, and was released.
After the War
He was back in Henderson County by 1867, but from 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Hamilton County, TX.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Rownsvall. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850-1910, and the Henderderson County voter rolls for 1867. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ann Eliza Findley (1846-1935) in January 1871 in Henderson County and they had 4 daughters.
Birth
11/09/1841; Claiborne Parish, LA
Death
03/26/1912; Jonesboro, TX; burial in Bulman Cemetery, Hamilton, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1937]
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 26947]