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Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Lexington, VA on 24 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, First Battalion Virginia Infantry. He deserted his unit on 15 April at New Market, VA and returned on 30 June. He was sick with cholera in a hospital in Winchester, VA in August.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 October, then transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled for exchange. He was again listed as a deserter in January 1863, a prisoner in September, and tried by a court martial on 24 November 1863, charges not found. There is no later military record.
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 34078]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #110 [AotW citation 34079]