Open main menu
Open main menu
![[no picture yet]](images/none.gif)
[no picture yet]
(c. 1836 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his widowed mother and 2 younger siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his Company by the end of October 1862. He was sent on furlough in December 1864, the last record in his military file.
After the War
By 1880 he was farming on his sister Olivia's place in Claiborne County, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wounding from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Mary "Mollie" Manning (c. 1849-1874) in 1866 and they had 3 children. He married again, Arradine Walters (1863-1940) in January 1881, and they had 2 more.
At least one genealogist has his middle name as Matheny, his mother's maiden name.
Birth
c. 1836 in MS
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 29621]