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(c. 1835 - 1863)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 41st Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living in Norfolk, VA. He enlisted at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 41st Virginia Infantry.
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 about 19 September and transferred for exchange. He died of angina pectoris (probably coronary artery disease) in the Fairview Hospital in Lexington, VA on 26 February 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his widow's 1888 pension application.
He married Fanny Wright (1829-) in 1859 and they had 3 children - twins Mary and Walker in 1860, daughter Annie in 1863.
Birth
c. 1835 in CA
Death
02/26/1863; Lexington, 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 34660]
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: #389 [AotW citation 34661]