Richard W. Sikes

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farm worker at Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS. He enlisted at West Point 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.

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed for 30 days on 5 October 1862. He was listed as absent without leave by early 1863. By December 1863 and through 1864 he was detailed as a machinist to the Selma, AL Arsenal. There is no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Whitefield in Oktibbeha County.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, also as Richard W. Sykes. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Cornelia Jane Brodnax (1842-1904) by 1860 and they had 7 children by 1883.

04/19/1831 in AL

07/10/1896; Oktibbeha County, MS; burial in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Oktibbeha County, MS