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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A Belgian-born, 19 year old laborer, he enlisted in Company A, 8th Louisiana Infantry on 20 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Left on the field wounded, he died 30 November 1862 in the Locust Spring Hospital, Frederick, MD. He was originally buried "in Hospital graveyard at Russer Spring". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1842 in BELGIUM
Death
11/30/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4452]
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 1, pg. 981 [AotW citation 10689]