Open main menu
Open main menu
![[no picture yet]](images/none.gif)
[no picture yet]
"Jack"
(c. 1825 - ?)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 35 year old drayman (wagon driver, deliveryman) in New Orleans, LA. He enlisted at Columbus in Colorado County, TX on 10 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry. He was detailed as a wagoner in December 1861 and returned to his company by June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in both legs in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 30 September and admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 10 October. He was sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore the next day, then, on 13 October, to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October and returned to duty on 14 November 1862. He was captured again, at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863 and was in the military prison at Louisville, KY on 5 September. Two days later he was sent on to Camp Douglas near Chicago, IL. He was released on 16 May 1865 and indicated he was going home to New Orleans, LA.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1825 in IRELAND
1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 332-334 [AotW citation 2503]
2 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 32636]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #839 [AotW citation 32637]