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Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Corsicana, Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but listed as absent without leave at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862; he had been captured on 15 September near Boonsboro, MD.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October then sent to Aikens Landing, VA. He was declared exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He was listed as missing after the battle at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863, but again, had been captured on 20 September 1863. He was sent to Louisville, KY on 5 October and on to the prison at Camp Douglas, IL on 7 October 1863 with no later military record.
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1899]
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 26730]