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"Dick"
(1837 - 1909)
Home State: Kentucky
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 23, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company K, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 1 July at Union Mills, VA (or 4 August 1861 in Manassas, VA). He was commissioned 3rd (Junior 2nd) Lieutenant on 8 September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through his right hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in the CS Army hospital in Staunton, VA by 4 November 1862 and was absent, wounded, in hospitals and on furlough into August 1864, then was retired to the Invalid Corps on 12 August 1864.
After the War
He returned to Shelbyville, KY and was County Assessor and Clerk of the Court (to 1884).
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as R.F. Owen. Personal details from family genealogists and his obituary in the Confederate Veteran,2 which is not entirely reliable on his military career. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
03/13/1837; Shelbyville, KY
Death
05/14/1909; Shelbyville, KY; burial in Grove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, KY
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 29777]
2 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. 17 (August 1909), pg. 421 [AotW citation 29778]