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(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old carpenter living with his mother and 8 siblings in Natchez, MS. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted there on 5 March 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 12 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the right leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated, but he died of wounds on 24 September 1862 at Warrenton, VA. His widowed mother Catherine filed for his final pay of $97.91 on 9 December 1862.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and death detail from the MHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His brother Martin Culhane (b. 1832) was also in Company G and was killed at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863.
Birth
c. 1844 in IRELAND
Death
09/24/1862; Warrenton, VA
1 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 29725]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883 [AotW citation 29726]