Lorenzo Dowe Champion

He enlisted in Athens, TX as 4th Corporal of Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was reduced to Private by February 1862 and was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

He was missing in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was back with his unit by October 1862 and was detailed to the Pioneer Corps in February 1864 but was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

He was back in Crenshaw County, AL by 1866 and was a farmer there on his father-in-law Elijah Croxton's place when he died in 1870, just 30 years old.

Service information from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He and his first cousin Thirza Jane Croxton (1843-1917; her mother and his father were sister and brother) were married by a justice of the peace in January 1867 in Lowndes County, AL and they had 2 sons.

03/08/1840 in AL

07/30/1870; burial in Rocky Mount Cemetery, Highland Home, AL