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(c. 1838 - 1896)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old worker on his parents substantial farm near Columbus in Lowndes County, MS. He enlisted at West Point, MS as First Sergeant of the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded accidentally "on the march from Sharpsburg" in September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on sick furlough from 22 January 1863 to 7 November 1863, then he rejoined his Company, by then a Private. On 17 February 1864, still unfit for field service, he was detailed to the CS Commissary Department at Crawfordville, MS. He was surrendered at Citronelle, AL and paroled at Meridian, MD on 12 May 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Columbus, MS but by 1880 was farmin in Hill County, TX.
References & notes
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 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Julia P. Darden (1844-1923) in January 1866 and they had at least 7 children.
Birth
c. 1838; Oktibbeha County, MS
Death
06/28/1896; Hill County, TX; burial in Old Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, TX
1 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 29018]