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(1842 - 1921)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: 9th Virginia Cavalry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 25 May 1861 in Company C, 9th Virginia Cavalry as Sergeant.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in a cavalry action at Boonesboro on 15 September and at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
The rest of the War
Promoted to Lieutenant on 9 December 1862. Absent sick in April and May 1864. Wounded in left thigh on 6 February 1865.
After the War
Baptist preacher and author.
References & notes
Birth
8/21/1842
Death
7/15/1921; burial in Coan Church, Heathsville, VA
1 Carman, Ezra Ayers, and Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, editor, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 volumes, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, 2010-17, Vol. 1, pg. 29, note 31 [AotW citation 10672]
2 Krick, Robert K., 9th Virginia Cavalry, Lynchburg (Va): H.E. Howard, Inc., 1982, roster [AotW citation 10678]