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(1841 - 1867)
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 B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was slightly wounded in the leg at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA then on furlough, and rejoined his Company on 11 December 1862. He was listed as absent without leave at Hallettsville, TX after 1 November 1863, with no military record after August 1864.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his is the oldest marker in the Shiloh Cemetery.
He married Anna Elizabeth Mildred Rhode (later Barnett, 1845-1915) in December 1863 in Lavaca County. They had 3 children.
Birth
07/17/1841; Rankin County, MS
Death
11/23/1867; Lavaca County, TX; burial in Shiloh Cemetery, Lavaca County, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1672]
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 26608]