Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He mustered as Private, Company K, 13th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left leg and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a hospital in Frederick, MD and his leg was amputated. On 5 December 1862 he was transferred to Baltimore, MD. He was discharged for wounds on 31 January 1865 (1863?).
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Record and The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War via the Historical Data Systems database. Hospital details from the Patient List.1
1 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.502 [AotW citation 18341]