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Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From DeWitt County, TX, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in hospitals in Staunton and Richmond, VA but returned to duty on 22 November 1862. He was "confined in the guard house under charges" from 23 June 1863 (charges not given) and was in Castle Thunder in Richmond by June 1864 and still "awaiting sentence of Court Martial" in August. He was released to return to duty on 1 December 1864 and was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1862. He took an oath of allegiance on 20 April in Richmond, was sent to Philadelphia and held there into June, then on to Baltimore, his date of release not given.
Birth
Date not known in GERMANY
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1794]
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 26663]