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(c. 1833 - 1866)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Washington, LA, he enlisted in St Landry Parish, LA on 3 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 6th Louisiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind sick, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 13 October, sent to the parole camp nearby on 18 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was afterward away from his regiment on furlough and was declared a deserter in December 1863.
He was, by then, probably living in Illinois.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under T.N. Chenier. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists.
He married Hannah Beals (1834-1887) in St Landry in February 1858, and they had 3 children born between 1863 and 1866, all in Illinois.
Birth
c. 1833 in LA
Death
1866; Pulaski County, IL
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 34869]
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: #97 [AotW citation 34870]