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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 23, he enlisted at Natchez on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thumb in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, Va by 27 September He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 11 April 1863 and was wounded again, on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was absent in hospital and on furlough to Woodville, MS to at least the end of 1864 with no later military record.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Stiles.
Birth
c. 1838
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 29636]