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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 23, he enlisted on 11 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 11 July 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his hand in May 1864, place not given, and treated in hospitals in Danville and Richmond, VA. He was wounded for the third time by a gunshot to his left knee and captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and released from a US Army hospital at Fortress Monroe, VA on 17 July 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance.
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.
Birth
c. 1838
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 29690]