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(1828 - 1886)
Home State: Virginia
Education: University of Virginia, Jefferson Medical College
Command Billet: Regimental Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He practiced medicine in Martinsburg, VA for a year after graduation from Jefferson in 1849, but left the profession to become a clerk in a bank in Fredericksburg. He was elected Captain of the Fredericksburg Grays in 1860, and they enrolled as Company B, 30th Virginia Infantry and he was elected their Captain on 22 April 1861. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment on 19 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment at Sharpsburg, and was wounded there on 17 September 1862.1
The rest of the War
By February 1865 and through war's end at Appomattox he was Colonel (to date from 5 November 1864) and in command of the 30th Virginia Infantry.2 He commanded Corse's Brigade in late 1863 and early 1864. He was paroled at Appomattox Courthouse, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He was in business in Memphis, TN to 1870, then was Clerk of the Corporate Court in Fredericksburg, VA until his death.
References & notes
Service data from Confederate Colonels3 and his Compiled Service Records,4 online from fold3. Burial information from his gravesite on Findagrave. Personal information from a sketch in Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks (1888). Jonathan Letterman, Director of Medicine of the Army of the Potomac was a Jefferson Medical College Classmate ('49).
Birth
10/03/1828; Fredericksburg, VA
Death
08/17/1886; Fredericksburg, VA; burial in Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
1 US National Park Service, and Stephanie Gray and Keith Snyder, webmasters, Antietam National Battlefield, Published c. 1998, first accessed 01 January 1998, <http://www.nps.gov/anti/>, Source page: /Longstreet_W2.htm [AotW citation 217]
2 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Vol. 46/Part 1 (Ser #95), pp. 1268 [AotW citation 218]
3 Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels, Columbia (Mo): University of Missouri Press, 2008, pg. 97 [AotW citation 14223]
4 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 30431]