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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was an unmarried 20 year old farmer from Alexandria, LA when he enlisted in New Orleans on 2 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, First Louisiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant about September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshots to both thighs in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while serving as Color Sergeant and captured there.
The rest of the War
He appears on a parole on 27 September and died of wounds on 23 October 1862, probably in a field hospital at Sharpsburg.
References & notes
His service from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and death details from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 17 December 1862, kindly shared by Greyson Beardsley.
Birth
c. 1841 in LA
Death
10/23/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 2, pg. 474 [AotW citation 13651]