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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Jeremiah Doughty Caddell

(1821 - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861 and was appointed 5th Sergeant on 20 September 1861. He was reduced to Private on 25 December 1861, but restored to Sergeant on 25 February 1862. He was wounded in the foot at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent sick in hospitals in Richmond or on furlough for most of the period from November 1862 to March 1863, and was detailed as Commissary Sergeant on 20 October 1863. He was killed at Petersburg on 17 June 1864 - "Struck by a shell the pieces of which lodged in his right eye, breast, and groin. Death was instantaneous."

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists.

Birth

1821; Tuscaloosa , AL

Death

06/17/1864; Petersburg, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1893]

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 26726]

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