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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old schoolteacher living on his father's prosperous plantation in Wilkinson County, MS. He enlisted on 21 April 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father George filed for his final pay of $67.98 in December 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him missing at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1840 in MS
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 29717]