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(? - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Company D, 16th Mississippi Infantry, date not known.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot to his left thigh which broke his leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and was captured.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD starting on 15 November, and had surgery to remove diseased parts of his bone on 2 December, but he died there on 15 December 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Death
12/15/1862; 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 4793]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.473 [AotW citation 21368]