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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted and mustered on 15 May 1861 as a Private in Company H, 19th Mississippi Infantry at Canaan in Tippah County, MS. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant in September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head/face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 27 September 1862 and returned to his Company on 17 October 1862. He was appointed regimental Ordnance Sergeant on 30 July 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records (CSRs),1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.
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 29814]