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(1835 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1856;Class Rank: 39/49
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
After graduation from West Point he was appointed brevet 2nd Lieutenant, 8th United States Infantry on 1 July 1856. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th US Infantry on 16 September 1856 and was at Ft. Leavenworth, KS (1856-57) and "quelling Kansas disturbances" (1857-58), on the Utah Expedition (1858), and at posts in California and New Mexico. He wrote from the Benicia Barracks near San Francisco, CA on 14 March 1861 seeking a Confederate commission, resigned his US commission on 8 April 1861, and returned east to Alabama.
On 26 June he was appointed First Lieutenant of Artillery, CSA and served on Brig. Gen. D.R. Jones' staff at First Manassas in July.was commissioned Major of the 14th Alabama Infantry on 9 September 1861. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Alabama Infantry on 21 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD.
The rest of the War
He was transported to Shepherdstown then on to Winchester, VA where he died on 30 September 1862.
References & notes
More on the Web
There's an excellent 1856 portrait photograph of him in his 8th US Infantry uniform online from the Alabama Archives.
Birth
10/21/1835; Lafayette, AL
Death
09/30/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in LaFayette Cemetery, Lafayette, AL
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 676 [AotW citation 30453]
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 30454]
3 Cullum, George Washington, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the US Military Academy, 2nd Edition, 3 vols., New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868-79, Vol. 2, p. 667 [AotW citation 30455]