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(1829 - 1909)
Home State: Tennessee
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Semmes' Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
He was volunteer aide-de-camp to General Semmes by the Seven Days' Battles in 1862.
On the Campaign
From General Semmes Report:
My staff, Lieutenant Briggs, aide-de-camp, and Lieutenants Redd and Cody, volunteer aides, were present during the entire action, and were more exposed, if possible, than any of the troops, being often employed in bearing orders to the different parts of my line and to commanders of other troops in the vicinity, displaying coolness and gallantry of the highest order, and all escaping untouched except Lieutenant Redd, who received a slight wound on the body from a spent bullet.
The rest of the War
He remained on General Semmes' staff through Chancellorsville, VA in 1863, with no further military record.
After the War
He was a farmer in Williamson County, TN.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1
Birth
01/25/1829; Franklin County, TN
Death
03/17/1909; Franklin, TN; burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Franklin, TN
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, pp. 99-100 [AotW citation 17556]