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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old mechanic living with his widowed mother Margaret in Natchez, MS. He enlisted on 25 May 1861 at Natchez and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed 4th Sergeant by December 1861 and First (Orderly) Sergeant on 27 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged as "being an alien and non-conscript" on 29 September 1862.
After the War
He returned to Scotland, date not given, and became a doctor.
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 1860.
He married Mary A Wilson in Adams County (probably Natchez), MS on 1 November 1860.
Birth
c. 1838; Killearnan, SCOTLAND
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 29695]