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(1839 - 1907)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A physician's son, age 21, he enlisted at Sardis, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 27 August 1861 1861 at Manassas, VA (or 28 August in Fairfax, VA).
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He returned to his Company by December 1862. He was wounded, place not given, in March 1865 and in a hospital in Meridian, MS by 30 March 1865 with no later military record.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Friar's Point in Coahoma County, MS. In 1900 he was farming at Jonestown, Coahoma County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He was listed as missing at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah H "Sallie" Brown (1848-1881) in June 1869 and they had 9 children.
Birth
12/23/1839; Lauderdale County, AL
Death
08/20/1907; Coahoma County, MS; burial in Jonestown Cemetery, Coahoma County, 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 29764]