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(? - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September, briefly in US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 15 and 16 October, then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on the way to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 24 October but died there of gangrene on 1 December 1862.
Death
12/01/1862; Richmond, VA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1771]
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 26650]