(c. 1830 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 31, he enlisted at Woodville, MS on 21 April 1861 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.
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 as missing at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists.
His brother William was wounded at Sharpsburg.
Birth
c. 1830; Wilkinson County, 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 29718]