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(1837 - 1918)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm in Copiah County, MS. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 30 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to 4th Sergeant to date from 17 September 1862 and to 2nd Sergeant on 15 April 1863. He was listed as a deserter on 27 January 1865 at Petersburg, VA - he surrendered to US forces there, along with Privates Robert Shirley and Daniel Howell. They were prisoners at Knoxville, TN by 14 March, took an oath of allegiance there, and were sent to Chattanooga then Louisville, KY, where all three were released on 28 March 1865, pledged to "remain north of the Ohio River during the War."
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Sabine Parish, LA. By 1910 he had retired there.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910.
He married Louisiana Mumford (1840-1922) in DeSoto Parish, LA in September 1872 and they had 3 children.
His brother Alfred was killed at Sharpsburg.
Birth
06/11/1837; Copiah County, MS
Death
02/23/1918; Sabine Parish, LA
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 29632]