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(? - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Columbus in Colorado County, TX on 10 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry. He was sick in hospitals in Richmond, VA from October 1861 into February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and "left on battlefield; not since heard from." He probably died on the field the same day.
References & notes
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 332-334 [AotW citation 2501]
2 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 32635]