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Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861 and was appointed a Musician by September 1861. He was a Private again by April 1862 and was wounded in the abdomen at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded by a gunshot in the back at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there on the 5th. He was treated in the US Army field hospital on the Plank Farm to 21 July then transferred to the DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor. He was exchanged and was back in Virginia, in a Petersburg hospital, on 28 August 1863. He was in the Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond and the General Hospital in Petersburg for sec [secondary] syphilis to the end of 1863 and was in the Episcopal Church Hospital in Williamsburg, VA from 22 February to 19 March 1864, for a gunshot wound (presumably from Gettysburg). He was in Howard's Grove again from October 1864 to 1 April 1865, when he was sent to Farmville, VA. There is no later military record.
After the War
He was "heard from in Georgia" as late as 1902.
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1878]
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 26906]