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(c. 1839 - 1863)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 9 May 1861 in New Orleans and mustered as a Private in Company A (later H, then E), 2nd Louisiana Infantry. In July and August 1861 he was absent, sick, in Williamsburg, VA.
On the Campaign
He was listed as a deserter on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg; he was in a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 22 October then transferred for exchange, place not given. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 29 October and returned to duty on 18 November 1982.
He was wounded in the knee and captured in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, sent to the US Army General Hospital, Chester, PA on 21 July, and died there of gangrene in his wounds on 3 or 10 August 1863.
He was buried in Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, PA, grave #134.
After the War
He was removed to a mass grave at the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA, in 1891.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839; Avoyelles Parish, LA
Death
08/10/1863; Chester, PA; burial in Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
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. 928 [AotW citation 14967]
2 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 34236]