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(1813 - 1884)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 48 year old mechanic - a Henderson County wheelwright in 1860 - he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 14 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, as a litter bearer.
The rest of the War
He was given a furlough home to Texas from 31 January to 1 April 1863. He was an ambulance driver and/or teamster from July 1863 through at least the end of 1864, listed as disabled for field service, but he was surrendered and paroled with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Caroline Calvan (b. 1824) in June 1843 in Mississippi and they had at least one son, James (b.c. 1844). She applied for a Confederate widow's pension in August 1899; it's online from the US GenWeb archives [PDF]. J.F.T. Bradley and W.R. Clanahan were her witnesses.
Birth
10/23/1813; Onandaga County, NY
Death
01/30/1884; burial in Athens Cemetery, Athens, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1919]
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 26932]