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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Vicksburg, MS as a Private in Company G, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 27 March or 2 April 1862 and was appointed First Sergeant, date not given. He was wounded at Williamsburg, VA on 5 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was listed as a deserter in Maryland as of 10 September 1862 and was captured there, possibly at Sharpsburg on the 17th.
The rest of the War
On 27 September 1862 he signed a statement requesting he not be exchanged or returned by parole, and was released to "proceed to and remain in any of the loyal States."
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 28965]