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(c. 1843 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 18, he enlisted on 23 May 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was elected 4th Sergeant on 26 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was home on wounded furlough to at least October 1863, then reduced to Private and afterward listed as absent without leave. He was transferred to Brigadier General Thomas H Taylor's Cavalry Brigade inn the Trans-Mississippi Department on 24 August 1864, with no later record found.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg death is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Sgt. Coyler.
Birth
c. 1843
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 29703]