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(1841 - 1888)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 19 year old farmer in Caldwell County, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was elected 4th Sergeant on 27 December 1862 and promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 6 May 1864. He was in Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA from 9 to 24 October 1864 and again in December 1864 and January 1865, but returned to duty and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a miller in Caldwell County.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Tuscaloosa, AL, and the US Census of 1850-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Aletha Demarius Appling (1850-1928) in January 1868 in Guadalupe County, TX, and they had 10 children between 1868 and 1886.
Birth
12/11/1841 in GA
Death
10/16/1888; burial in Prairie Lea Masonic Cemetery, Prairie Lea, TX
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 1640]
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 26756]