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(1827 - 1869)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was in Company B.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and disabled.
After the War
"Murdered by Mexicans on the Rio Grande in 1869."
References & notes
Basic information from Polley,1 as B.K. Fawcett. He's not found in the Compiled Service Records for the regiment. Personal details from family genealogists, who have his death in 1870. His brother Niles, also in Company B, was killed at 2nd Manassas in August 1862. His death story from Val Giles in the Confederate Veteran.1
Birth
1827 in VA
Death
1869
1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 317 [AotW citation 1665]
2 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 1918 [AotW citation 26774]