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(1840 - 1863)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 26 April 1861 at Westville in Sampson County, MS and mustered as Private, Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry, on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA for exchange. He was declared formally exchanged on 10 November but was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital with pneumonia to 27 November, then returned to duty. He was mortally wounded in the right arm at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and died of wounds in a Richmond hospital on 3 June 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. He's on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 as having been killed at Sharpsburg, as Waitman.
Birth
1840; Westville, MS
Death
06/03/1863; Richmond, VA
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 29594]