(1836 - 1902)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried carpenter, he enlisted 7 June 1861, at Camp Moore, LA in Company A, 7th Louisiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was probably treated at a field hospital near Sharpsburg, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October. He was released on 22 November and sent to Baltimore, probably for exchange. He did not return to duty and was listed as a supposed deserter by April 1863, with no further record.
References & notes
Birth
08/1836 in NY
Death
09/07/1902; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, Part 1, pg. 547 [AotW citation 22305]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.239 [AotW citation 22306]