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Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Portsmouth, VA on 16 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 3rd Battalion, Louisiana Infantry. They became Company H, 15th Louisiana Infantry in July 1862, as their unit consolidated with the 7th Battalion and expanded to a regiment.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, was left behind, and was captured there on the 12th.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, then probably transferred to Baltimore for exchange. He was on furlough by the end of October and was listed as a deserter after 28 November 1862. There is no later record in his military file.
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 34169]
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: #151 [AotW citation 34170]