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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old worker on his parent's farm at Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS. He enlisted at West Point, MS as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was left behind sick at Frederick, MD and captured in September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 26 September and treated in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick to at least 22 October 1862. His service record says he was presumed to have died in October 1862, place not given.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1842 in MS
Death
10/1862
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 29023]