(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old clerk living with his parents and siblings on the large family farm at Starrville in Smith County, TX. He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 14 October 1861 at Fairfax, VA. He was wounded near Richmond, VA in late June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried "In David Reel's field, 3rd one from house, S.W. corner", on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1. His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,2 online from fold3. His death at Sharpsburg from a casualty list on the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
08/02/1840; Chambers County, AL
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4596]
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 29722]