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(1835 - 1913)
Home State: Louisiana
Education: U of Virginia
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: D. H. Hill's Division
Before Sharpsburg
He was a lawyer in Opelousas, LA before the War. He was commissioned Captain of Louisiana state troops, date not given. He was appointed Lieutenant of Infantry, CSA on 27 April 1861. He was then on engineer and quartermaster duty at Pensacola, FL. He was assigned as aide to Genereal Holmes (a relative) on 9 April 1862, and promoted Captain and Ordnance Officer, date not given. He transferred to General French in July 1862, and to General D. H. Hill in September.
On the Campaign
From General Hill's Report:
Captain Overton, serving temporarily with me, was wounded at Sharpsburg, but remained under fire until I urged him to leave the field.
The rest of the War
He returned to General French's staff on 3 October 1862. His rank of Captain may have been temporary, as he was a Lieutenant and Ordnance Officer at Alexandria, LA by January 1863, and Lieutenant and Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General to General Maxey in April 1865.
After the War
He was an attorney at Marksville, LA.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1
Birth
03/26/1835
Death
08/14/1913; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Pineville, LA
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. 234 [AotW citation 17569]