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(c. 1836 - ?)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old silversmith in Fredericksburg, VA, and he enlisted there on 7 March 1862 as a Private in the Fredericksburg Light Artillery.
On the Campaign
He was with his battery in Maryland and was captured near Hagerstown, MD on 18 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October then sent to Aiken's Landing,VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond with secondary syphilis by 8 October and was declared formally exchanged on 10 November 1862, but was afterward absent, sick and/or without leave, into February 1865, the last military record for him.
After the War
In June 1865 he was a jeweler in Fredericksburg, but by 1870 he was working with a blacksmith there. In 1880 he was again a jeweler, living alone, a boarder in Prince William County, VA.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1870, and an ad in the Fredericksburg New Era of 30 June and 25 August 1865.
He married Mary (?) and they had a daughter Fannie (1860-).
Birth
c. 1836 in VA
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 30449]