Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 27, he enlisted as Private, Company K, First Texas Infantry when they organized in San Augustine County, TX in mid-1861 and mustered into Confederate service with them near Richmond, VA on 11 October 1861. He was reported absent without leave at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862 with no further military record.
References & notes
Service information from Simpson.1
1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 74 [AotW citation 21018]