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(1835 - 1904)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 11 April 1861 at Westville, MS and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to his Company from a Richmond, VA hospital about 6 November 1862. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, by a gunshot through his left big toe and absent on wounded furlough to Brandon, MS to about September 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1900 he was a farmer in Coleman County, TX.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J.O. Ward. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Louisa Elizabeth Visage (1846-1915) in June 1865 and they had 7 children.
Birth
04/11/1835; Stewart County, GA
Death
04/07/1904; Santa Anna, TX; burial in Santa Anna Cemetery, Santa Anna, TX
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 29604]