Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company K, 12th Alabama Infantry about 1 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to the leg and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 20 November to 5 December 1862, then turned over to the Federal Provost Marshal (probably for parole and exchange).
After the War
He was discharged in December 1862.
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=96932 [AotW citation 21240]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #881 [AotW citation 21241]