(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 C, 8th Louisiana Infantry. He was a clerk, living in St. Martinville, LA, age 21 when enlisted, single.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
References & notes
Basic information from Booth1. Absent, wounded at Sharpsburg, Md., supposed to have been taken prisoner. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Antietam, Oct. 1, 1862, Forwd. to Ft. McHenry, Md., _, 1862. Paroled for exchange Oct. 20, 1862. Exchanged at Aikens Landing, Va., Nov. 10, 1862. Rolls to Aug. 31, 1863, Absent, wounded at Sharpsburg, Oct., 1862. Furloughed to Louisiana. Rolls to Nov., 1863, Deserted while on furlough Oct. _, 1862. Record copied from Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., by the War Dept., Washington, D. C., June, 1903, born France, occupation Furloughed to Louisiana; never returned.
Birth
c. 1840 in FRANCE
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, pg. 849 [AotW citation 14960]