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(1843 - 1883)
Home State: Virginia
Education: Virginia Military Institute
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: Kemper's Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
He attended V.M.I. (Class of 1863, honorary graduate 1869). He was a Drillmaster in Richmond, 1861. Commissioned Captain in the 7th Virginia Infantry. Promoted to Major on General Kemper's staff. Cited in A.P. Hill's report of Williamsburg, and in Kemper's report of Frayser's Farm.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, "his foot torn off by a shell", and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and his leg was amputated.
The rest of the War
He was paroled, exhanged, and on light duty in Virginia Reservve Forces to 1864.
After the War
He was a lumber merchant near Lynchburg, VA. He died in June 1883 in Texas.
Birth
09/11/1843; Culpeper County , VA
Death
06/00/1883; in TX; burial in Norwood Cemetery, Hearne, TX
1 Riggs, David F., 7th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1982 [AotW citation 9717]
2 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 71 [AotW citation 27821]