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(c. 1827 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Private, 18th Mississippi Infantry, date and Company not known.
On the Campaign
He was mortally 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 field hospital near Sharpsburg and a Federal surgeon amputated his leg at the lower part of his thigh on 17 September, but he died of infection on 21 September 1862, age 25.
References & notes
Wound and medical details from Fisher.1 He's not found in other references for Mississippi soldiers.
Birth
c. 1827
Death
09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD