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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An unmarried 22 year old farmer at Baton Rouge, he enlisted in Company A, 8th Louisiana Infantry on 20 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore and paroled there on 19 October, on to Fortress Monroe, VA, then exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA on 10 November 1862. He was absent, wounded, to at least December 1863 with no further military record.
References & notes
Service from Booth.1
Birth
c. 1839 in 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 2, pg. 1008 [AotW citation 22331]