Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, Company A, First Texas Infantry in September 1861. He resigned (?) in May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was detailed as Regimental Color Sergeant at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Service from Simpson.1
1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 13 [AotW citation 20842]