Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
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.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was exchanged, date not given. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.
References & notes
Service information from Simpson.1 A 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862 has him as missing in action.
1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 77 [AotW citation 21028]