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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 21, from Holmes County, MS, he enlisted on 9 March 1861 at Durant, MS and mustered as a Private in Company I, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 9 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 11 October but was back with his Company by January 1863. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad/Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 1 November 1864 then sent South for exchange. He was paroled at Meridian, MD on 9 May 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.
Birth
c. 1840; Calloway County, KY
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 29775]