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(1838 - 1906)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was promoted to Corporal on 25 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the right side, chest, shoulder, and back in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the US 2nd Army Corps field hospital on the Hoffman Farm near Sharpsburg and paroled there on 1 October. He was briefly in US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 15 and 16 October, transferred to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, then sent on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 18 October 1862. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond on 24 October, transferred to #1 on the 28th, and over to the Infirmary of Francis de Sales on 12 November. He was in the Texas Hospital in Richmond in January and February 1863. He was absent recovering and on furlough in Texas through 1863 and finally listed as permanently disabled in March 1864.
After the War
He married in Austin, TX in 1871 and by 1880 was a dry goods salesman there. In 1900 he was running a grist mill there.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as A.N. Poleet. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Fannie Morris (1847-1924) in March 1871 in Austin, TX and they had 4 children.
Birth
11/1838; Lee County, VA
Death
08/25/1906; Buchanan County, MO; burial in Mount Mora Cemetery, Saint Joseph, MO
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 1644]
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 26590]
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 #1.123 [AotW citation 26591]