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(1835 - 1925)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Fayette County, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was severely wounded in the mouth at Gaines Mill, 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 at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg on 6 May, probably in the Wilderness, VA, and was returned to duty on 8 June. He was slightly wounded in his left arm at Chaffin's Farm near Petersburg, VA on 29 September 1864 and furloughed for 60 days to Augusta, GA in December.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer in Fayette County, and was farming in San Saba County by 1900 and to at least 1910. He'd finally retired by 1920.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as A.J. Howard. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sallie Ballard (1842-) in March 1867 in Fayette County. He married again, the widow Nancy A. Edna Magness Burke (1845-1927) in January 1874, and they had 7 children. She had 3 children from her previous marriage.
Birth
03/09/1835; Oglethorpe County, GA
Death
07/16/1925; San Saba County, TX; burial in Harmony Ridge Cemetery, San Saba 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 1678]
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 26779]