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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his widowed mother and 6 younger siblings on the family farm in Westville, Simpson County, MS. He mustered as Private, Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry, on 4 July 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His death also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.
Birth
c. 1843; Simpson County, MS
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 29592]