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(c. 1830 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old overseer in Wilkinson County, MS. He enlisted at Woodville, MS on 15 March 1862 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was with his Company through the war and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer/planter at Fort Adams, Wilkinson County, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.
Possibly son of Thiza/Thirza Ann McGraw and James Varnell (m. Wilkinson County 1827).
He married Mrs. Fannie Oliver in Wilkinson County on 17 May 1866; by 1880 they had an adopted son Weathersill (born c. 1872).
Birth
c. 1830 in MS
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 29708]