Forbes W. Lewis

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his widowed mother and siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 19 July 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the wrist in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was with his Company by October 1862. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD until sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 14 March 1865 for exchange. He was surrendered at Citronelle, AL on 4 May and paroled at Jackson, MS on 19 May 1865.

In 1870 he was back at his mother's farm in Copiah County but by 1880 was a farm worker in Hinds County, MS. In 1900 he was a farmer in Warren County and by 1910 had retired and lived in Vicksburg.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Forbus W Lewis. His Sharpsburg wound 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 (as Merwin Ford)-1910. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His bother Hardy was also wounded at Sharpsburg.

05/08/1843; Copiah County, MS

03/20/1921; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, MS