David Monroe Coker

Known by Monroe, in 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker living with wagon maker Samuel Barret and his family at Van Buren in Itawamba County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

He was wounded in the hand in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 13 October and furloughed for 40 days on 24 or 27 October 1862.

His Company (K) was converted to cavalry and attached as Company F to the 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2d Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) in January 1863. He was captured at Middleton, TN on 22 May 1863 and passed through Nashville, Louisville, and Baltimore, where he was paroled, and on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 3 June 1863. There is no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Martha Jane Beane (1840-1907) in March 1860 and they had 6 children; 4 daughters survived to adulthood.

He died before 1880.

c. 1838 in AL