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(? - 1862)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 42nd Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He mustered as Private, Company K, 42nd Virginia Infantry on 17 June 1861 at Rocky Mount, VA. He was ill in a hospital in White Sulphur Springs, VA in October 1861 and returned to duty in February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds, date not given, near Sharpsburg and was originally buried " in N.E. corner of Mrs. Lucker's house-field" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 Service and other details from John D. Chapla's 42nd Virginia Infantry (roster, 1983) via the Historical Data Systems database.
Death
1862; Sharpsburg, 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 4608]