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(1840 - 1890)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 20, he enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 September, furloughed on 6 October, and was back with his Company by January 1863. He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1863 and in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC by 7 May. He was transferred to Fort Delaware and exchanged, date not given, and rejoined his unit on 17 June 1863. He was admitted to a Richmond hospital with a gunshot wound on 16 May 1864, details not given, and furloughed again, for 60 days on 23 July 1864. He was captured again, at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was released on 29 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance. He was sent through Washington, DC and provided transportation to Meridian, MS about 1 July.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
12/01/1840 in MS
Death
09/26/1890; Sharkey County, MS; burial in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, 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 29686]