Served in Company H, 8th Inf., Mississippi as Pvt

Residence was not listed; 22 years old. Enlisted on 6/1/1861 as a Private. On 6/1/1861 he mustered into "H" Co. MS 8th Infantry He was transferred out on 4/9/1865 at Smithfield, NC On 4/9/1865 he transferred into "H" Co. MS 8th Cons Infantry He was Surrendered on 4/26/1865 at Durham Station, NC Other Information: born 9/21/1838 in Hurricane Creek, MS died 4/16/1924 in Meridian, MS Buried: Tims Cemetery, Choctaw County, MS Sources used: - Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records - Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry

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Unit Details:

8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Enterprize, Mississippi, during the spring of 1861. Many of its members were from Jones, Wilkinson, and Clarke counties. The unit served in Florida and Mississippi, then was assigned to General J.K. Jackson's, Gist's, and Lowry's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It participated in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. This regiment lost forty-seven percent of the 282 at Murfreesboro and twenty-three percent of the 375 at Chickamauga. In December, 1863, it totalled 287 men and 169 arms. Its casualties at the Battle of Atlanta were 13 killed, 71 wounded, and 3 missing, and few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels G.C. Chandler, Guilford G. Flynt, and John C. Wilkinson; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Gates, Aden McNeill, and John F. Smith; and Majors Andrew E. Moody, George F. Peek, and William Watkins.