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(1826 - 1864)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Born in North Carolina and raised in Missouri after age 8, in 1860 he was a 35 year old teacher in Turnersville in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was ill in a Richmond, VA hospital with scurvy and/or pneumonia from 14 June to 3 July 1863, and again admitted on 9 July with a gunshot wound, cause not given. He returned to duty on 10 August 1863. He was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.
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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of c1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Dorcas J. Cochran (1826-1896) in Cape Girardeau County, MO in May 1848 and they had 5 children.
Birth
02/03/1826; Harrisburg, NC
Death
05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania Courthouse, 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 29662]