David M. McIntosh

Age 18 (or 22), from Copiah County, he enlisted in Holmesville, MS on 20 or 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth, MS and transferred to Company C on 5 June 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his knee in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 14 October then on wounded furlough from 16 October to March 1863. He was detailed as a harness maker in Richmond from 1 May 1863 to at least October 1864 and was then sick in a hospital in Richmond to 13 February 1865 when he returned to duty. He was captured at Amelia Court House, VA on 5 April 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was released after taking an oath of allegiance on 29 June 1865. He was in Washington, DC on 30 June and provided transportation to Jackson, MS.

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, as D.W. McIntosh.

c. 1843