(1843 - 1908)
Home State: Tennessee
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Tennessee Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A mason in Hendersonville, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th Tennessee Infantry on about 15 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.
The rest of the War
He was exchanged and wounded and captured again, in the right arm at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was exchanged in August 1864 and in hospitals to the end of the war.
References & notes
His service from William Thomas Venner's The 7th Tennessee Infantry in the Civil War (2013) and from the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
06/03/1843; Sumner County, TN
Death
08/30/1908; Sumner County, TN; burial in Beech Cemetery, Hendersonville, TN