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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Andrew Jackson McKean

(1831 - 1868)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A lawyer in Gonzales County since 1854, he was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 4th Texas Infantry at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County on 11 July 1861 and was promoted to First Lieutenant in March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He signed a parole in Sharpsburg on 27 September and was briefly in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 and 11 October, sent to Ft McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 13 October. He was promoted to Captain to date from 8 October 1862 but was found unfit for duty from his Sharpsburg wound and furloughed to about the end of 1862. Generally of "feeble health", he was sick in a Richmond hospital in March and April and resigned his commission on 7 May 1863.

After the War

He "died young from exposure and hardship in a Yankee prison" at age 37 just 5 years later.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Minter (1836-1889) in January 1856 and they had 4 children.

Birth

03/19/1831; Bolivar, TN

Death

06/10/1868; Gonzales, TX; burial in Gonzales Masonic Cemetery, Gonzales, TX

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 1636]

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 26586]

3 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 #901 [AotW citation 26587]

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