Served in Company I, 13th Inf., Mississippi as Sgt

Residence Kosciusko MS; 24 years old. Enlisted on 5/13/1861 at Kosciusko, MS as a Sergeant. On 5/13/1861 he mustered into "I" Co. MS 13th Infantry He was discharged for wounds (date not stated) He was listed as: * POW 7/2/1863 Gettysburg, PA (Estimated day) * Wounded 7/2/1863 Gettysburg, PA (Estimated day, right arm amputated) * Paroled 8/24/1863 (place not stated) Other Information: born 5/26/1836 in Kosciusko, MS died 8/11/1894 in Kosciusko, MS Buried: Conehoma Cemetery, Dodds, MS After the War he lived in Kosciusko, MS Sources used: - Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records - The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War - Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry

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Unit Details:

13th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861. Its members were raised in the counties of Lauderdale, Winston, Wayne, Attala, Newton, Chickasaw, Kemper, and Clarke. Ordered to Virginia it saw action at First Manassas and Leesburg, and in April, 1862, totalled 640 effectives. The unit was brigaded under Generals Griffith, Barksdale, and Humphreys, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought with the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor except when it was with Longstreet at Chickamauga and Knoxville. After participating in Early's operations in the Shenandoah Valley, and 13th shared in various conflicts around Appomattox. It was organized with 1,200 men and sustained 7 casualties at Leesburg and 135 during the Seven Days' Battles. It lost thirty-one percent of the 202 engaged at Sharpsburg, had 8 killed, 59 wounded, and 14 missing at Fredericksburg, and of the 481 at Gettysburg, thirty-four percent were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and 4 officers and 81 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels William Barksdale, James W. Carter, and Kennon McElroy; Lieutenant Colonels John M. Bradley, Alfred G. O'Brien, and M. Whitaker; and Majors George L. Donald and Isham Harrison.