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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted 19 June 1861, at Camp Moore, LA in Company A, 8th Louisiana Infantry. He was a carpenter in Baton Rouge, LA, age 21 when enlisted, married.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
On muster rolls from 31 August 1862 to 14 May 1863, he is listed as absent, wounded battle of Sharpsburg, and he was on wounded furlough to 31 August 1863, He was back with his Company by November 1863, but absent, sick, on detached service from December.
References & notes
Basic information from Booth1. "Disabled in right leg, April [September?] 17, 1862."
Birth
c. 1840 in LA
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. 775 [AotW citation 14939]