(1841 - 1891)
Home State: Florida
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Florida Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He mustered as 2nd Sergeant, Company C, 5th Florida Infantry in April 1862.
On the Campaign
Promoted to First Lieutenant after Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
Commanded his Company at the surrender, 9 April 1865
After the War
After the war he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree, and became a Presbyterian minister - ordained in 1874 - serving in St. Petersburg, Dade City, Wildwood, and Orlando, FL.
References & notes
Basic information from State of Florida1, who has him as I. McQuenn Auld. Details from his entry in the Presbyterian Ministerial Directory (1898) and family genealogists. Some of his wartime letters are in the collection of the US Army Military Heritage Center, Carlisle, PA. 24 of his letters are in the library of the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Birth
1841
Death
1891
1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 136 - 140 [AotW citation 15463]