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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Bailey Peyton Chaudoin

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a physician in Caldwell County, TX, and a 17 year old farmer in 1860, he enlisted at age 19 in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862 in Gonzales County.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, and was mortally wounded in the neck and left leg and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His leg was amputated but he died of wounds on 29 September 1862 at the US Second Army Corps hospital on the Hoffman Farm near Sharpsburg.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who has him as B.P. Chadoin, missing, and from his Compiled Service Records, via fold3.2 He's seen in Federal medical records as B.P. Shandion and B. Shandrince. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Jasper, TN

Death

09/27/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1616]

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 26574]

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