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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 3 March 1862 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by November and furloughed from 1 December 1862 to at least February 1863. He was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court Housue, VA on 12 May 1864, absent on furlough to October 1864, and retired to the Invalid Corps in Enterprise, MS on 10 November 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.
Birth
Date not known in MS
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 29664]