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(1842 - 1890)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Austin, he enlisted there as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed 2nd Sergeant to date from the battle at Sharpsburg (vice O. Flusser, KIA). He was on detached service in Texas from 23 May 1863 to at least August 1864, the last muster roll in the records. He was surrendered and paroled on 27 July 1865 in Austin.
After the War
He was a druggist in Austin, TX and also served as the first Texas Fish Commissioner.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave; source also of details from his obituary in the Austin Daily Statesman of 6 August 1890.
He married Bettie Taylor (1851-1932) in December 1873 and they had 4 children.
Birth
06/301842; Caroline County, VA
Death
08/01/1890; Austin, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1693]
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 26793]