(1840 - 1925)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A New Orleans resident, he enlisted 4 June 1861, at Camp Moore, LA in Company A, 6th Louisiana Infantry. Present on all Rolls to August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was admitted 10 October to No. 5 US Army General Hospital, Frederick, MD, and sent to the General Hospital at Ft. McHenry, MD on 13 October. He was paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange, and declared exchanged at Aikens Landing, VA on 10 November 1862. He remained absent recovering until returning in January 1863. He was again wounded, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. His left arm was amputated. He was on the Rolls of Prisoners of War, Paroled at Washington, Wilkes County, GA on 26 April 1865.
After the War
He moved to Columbia County, GA. He was later a tax receiver and Ordinary. He was listed as a farmer in the 1900 Federal Census.
References & notes
Basic information from Booth1. Details from family genealogists.
Birth
11/12/1840 in GA
Death
08/31/1925; Appling, GA; burial in Marshall Burying Ground, Appling, GA
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 1, pg. 533 [AotW citation 14915]