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(1830 - 1905)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 31 year old farmer from Montgomery, he enlisted in Montgomery County, TX as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 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 as with his Company to 20 January 1865 when he was granted a furlough. He was paroled at Houston, TX on 27 July 1865.
After the War
He was again farming at Montgomery by 1870 and to at least 1880, and was still there in 1900, living with his son Monroe.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his middle name as Monroe, and the US Census of 1860-1900. If he had a middle name he did not use it during the war or with Census takers. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ellen Jones (1831-1898) in February 1850 and they had 7 children; the last was Robert Edward Lee Talley (1871-1937).
Birth
08/22/1830; Lowndes County, AL
Death
07/01/1905; Montgomery, TX; burial in Montgomery New Cemetery, Montgomery, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 161 - 162 [AotW citation 1888]
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 26913]