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(? - 1864)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Robertson County as First Sergeant of Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861 and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 25 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with the regiment 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 right shoulder at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and furloughed for 60 days to Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 21 June 1864 but was mortally wounded by gunshots to his right leg and left thigh (or abdomen) near Petersburg, VA on 7 October 1864 and "left in the hands of the enemy." He died of wounds on 17 October in the 18th US Army Corps hospital at Point of Rocks near Chester, VA and was initially buried there.
References & notes
Death
10/17/1864; Chester, VA; burial in City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1708]
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 26805]