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Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861 at Anderson, Grimes County.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was reported missing in action on 17 September 1862, but had been wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder and captured at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was probably treated in a field hospital near the battlefield then admitted to US Amy General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 25 November. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 24 December and on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 29 December 1862, for exchange. He was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA to at least May 1863, and back in Texas by January 1864. He had not returned to his Company by August 1864, the last roll in the records. He was paroled in Texas on 14 August 1865.
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1841]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26692]