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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Rocky Point, Attala County, MS as a Private in Company B, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 13 May (or 7 June) 1861.
On the Campaign
He was left behind, sick and "unable for duty" at a hospital in Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862 and was captured there; he expressly asked not to be returned by exchange or upon parole.
The rest of the War
He was released on a parole on 6 October 1862 "permitted to proceed to, and remain within any of the Loyal States." He was afterward listed as a deserter on the regimental rolls.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry.
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 28961]