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(1842 - 1905)
Home State: Virginia
Education: St. Louis Medical College
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in camp at Fairfax, VA on 3 October 1861 as a Private in Company G, 27th Virginia Infantry. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 23 April 1862 and to First Lieutenant on 27 May.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company on the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on 18 January 1865 and surrendered himself (seen as a deserter) on 9 March 1865 at Charleston, WV. He took an oath of amnesty and was "sent north."
After the War
He went to St. Louis, MO and practiced obstetric and gynecological medicine there. In 1880 he was a boarder in the home of his partner and mentor Dr Timothy L. Papin.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His presence on the Campaign from Lt. Edgar, Company E. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880, and a bio sketch in The Graphic Vol V No. 13, [pdf] online from the Cincinnati Digital Library. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
09/19/1842; Wheeling, VA
Death
06/10/1905; St. Louis, MO; burial in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Saint Louis, MO
1 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 28655]