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(1840 - 1878)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Rodes' Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
He was appointed Lieutenant, Confederate States Army in May 1861 and was on recruiting duty at Mt. Vernon, AL to June, then at the Camp of Instruction, Richmond, VA to August. He was attached to the 13th and 6th Alabama Regiments later in 1861. He was assigned as aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Rodes on 9 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was reassigned to a post in Mobile, AL on 2 February 1863, and was on court-martial duty the rest of the War.
After the War
He was a doctor, like his father, in Montgomery, AL. He died of yellow fever in St. Louis, MO shortly after returning from a professional trip to Europe.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1 Details from a death announcement in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 11 October 1878, and family genealogists.
Birth
1840 in AL
Death
10/78; St. Louis, MO
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 72 [AotW citation 17544]