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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Frederick Miller Makeig, Jr.

"Fred"

(1843 - 1890)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He came with his family to Texas before 1850, when he was in Limestone County. He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was in a hospital in Richmond in August.

On the Campaign

He was present in action on South Mountain near Boonsboro on 14 September, but absent at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA in from October 1862 to January 1863 with chronic bronchitis, and, into February, for Variola Dist - smallpox. He was sick again in April and May 1864 with remittent fever. By then a Corporal and Color Bearer, he was appointed Ensign/Lieutenant on 26 June 1864 and was seriously wounded, shot through both thighs and captured on 7 October 1864 on the Darbytown Road, VA. He was in a prison at Hamilton, VA then in the US Army General Hospital at Fortress Monroe, VA by 12 November. He was sent to Point Lookout, MD on 23 December, on to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC on 2 January 1865, and finally to Fort Delaware on 3 February. He took the oath of allegiance there and was released on 14 June 1865.

After the War

He was briefly a farmer then moved to Waco, studied the law, and was admitted to the bar. He was the keeper of the McLennan County Poor House in 1880, was a Justice of the Peace, and practiced law until at least 1886. He died at the Confederate Veterans' Home in Austin in 1890.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as F.M. Making, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Francis M. Makaig and Frederick McKaig. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Irene Lassafine Clayton (1849-1884) in March 1866 and they had 4 children; the first two, daughters Lucy and Edith survived childhood. He named their 3rd child and first son Lee Hood Makeig (1880-1882).

Birth

07/18/1843; Crewkerne, Somerset, ENGLAND

Death

07/23/1890; Austin, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157  [AotW citation 1769]

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 26648]