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"Tobe"
(1841 - 1863)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was a 20 year old farmer on his parent's place at Corsicana, TX when he enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 20 September 1861.
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 was on recruiting service in February, March, and April 1863 with no later military record in his file. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his leg, the bone broken, at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863 and he died on the 21st.
References & notes
His service from Davis,1 as S.M. Riggs, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His death from Polley3 with details, and his nickname, from his cousin James M Polk in his The North and South American Review (1914), online from GoogleBooks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
02/20/1841 in MO
Death
09/21/1863; Chickamauga, GA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1910]
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 26925]