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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 23, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent home on wounded furlough in October, but was back with his Company by January 1863. He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1864, briefly in Washington, DC, then sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 10 May. He was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 10 June 1864 and furloughed for 40 days, with no later military record.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.
Birth
c. 1838
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 29581]