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(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded (accidentally?) by a gunshot on 15 (?) September 1862 in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 14 October and returned to duty on 16 October 1862. His Company (K) was converted to cavalry and attached as Company F to the 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2d Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) in January 1863, but there is no record that he ever joined this unit.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry.
Birth
c. 1842
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 29043]