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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Claiborne County, MS, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company K, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 1 March 1862 at Port Gibson, MS.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent sick early in 1863 and was captured on the Gettysburg Campaign on 7 July 1863 at Greencastle, PA. He was held at Fort Delaware and expressed desire to enter the US Army there on 30 August 1863. No later military record found.
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.
Birth
Date not known in NY
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 29779]