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(c. 1838 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 22 year old log chopper living with his brother William and family near Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish, LA. He enlisted in New Orleans on 2 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, First Louisiana Volunteers. He was listed as missing in action at Malvern Hill, VA on 10 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in Maryland but left behind sick, in Frederick, MD, and captured there on 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 5 October and then on to Aikens' Landing, VA the next day for exchange. He was admitted to General Hospital #23 in Richmond, VA on the 6th but died there of a fever on 13 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1838 in LA
Death
10/13/1862; Richmond, 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 34052]