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(1829 - 1882)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He left Laurenburg, NC at about age 17 in 1846. On 11 July 1861 he enrolled at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County and was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 4th Texas Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 27 June 1862 at Gaines' Mill, VA.
On the Campaign
He commanded his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, where he was wounded.
The rest of the War
He was briefly in a hospital in Richmond, VA in October 1862. He then continued in command of his Company during the prolonged absence in Texas of Captain Walsh, who'd been wounded in June '62. He was finally promoted to Captain on 17 August 1863 and he was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He lived in Benton, Yazoo County, MS.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and his death notice in the Laurinburg [NC] Enterprise of 5 May 1882.
He married Jane McLaurin (cousin?, 1840-1870) in November 1867 in Rankin, MS and they had a son Dr. Duncan McLaurin (1868-1896).
A relative of Mississippi Senator and Governor Anselm J. McLaurin (1848-1909).
Birth
02/17/1829; Laurinburg, NC
Death
04/07/1882; Benton, MS
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1681]
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 26620]