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Home State: Mississippi
Education: U of Mississippi, Class of 1861
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Clarke County, a continuing student at the University of Mississippi, he enlisted as Private in Company A - the University Greys - 11th Mississippi Infantry at Oxford on 26 April 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant, then commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, dates not given. He was promoted to First Lieutenant about December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on account of wounds on 26 November 1862.
References & notes
His basic service from his Compiled Confederate Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Details from Maud Morrow Brown's The University Greys (1940) and the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of Mississippi (1894).