Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Turner's (VA) Battery
Before Sharpsburg
He enrolled on 20 July 1861 in Amherst County, VA and mustered as First Lieutenant of Battery D (Captain Bernard Roemer) of the Wise Legion Artillery. He was commanding as senior officer present by January 1862, they were reorganized as an independent battery in February, and he was promoted to Captain when Roemer resigned on 3 March. They were assigned to Hilary P Jones' Battalion in July.
On the Campaign
He commanded the battery in Maryland. They were at Sharpsburg on 15 September 1862 and engaged there on the 17th from their position on Cemetery Hill near the town.
The rest of the War
The battery was disbanded on 4 October 1862 (S.O. No. 209, ANV) and the men of the battery assigned to Captain Fry's Company, Virginia Light Artillery. He continued in Confederate service, commanding the 4th Battalion Virginia Artillery (Reserves), ending the war sick in a Farmville, VA hospital.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.
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 31888]