Served in Company E, 20th Inf., Mississippi as Pvt

Residence was not listed; 36 years old. Enlisted on 5/20/1861 as a Private. On 5/20/1861 he mustered into "E" Co. MS 20th Infantry He was transferred out on 4/9/1865 at Smithfield, NC On 4/9/1865 he transferred into "E" Co. MS 15th Cons Infantry He was Surrendered on 4/26/1865 at Durham Station, NC Other Information: born 1/19/1825 in Harrison County, MS died 2/19/1898 in Gautier, MS Buried: Gautier Cemetery, Gautier, MS Sources used: - Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records - Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry

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Unit Details:

20th Infantry Regiment was organized during the late summer of 1861 with men from Bolivar, Monroe, Noxubee, Adams, Scott, Carroll, and Newton counties. The unit moved to Virginia, then Tennessee where in February, 1862, it was captured at Fort Donelson. In this engagement it lost 19 killed of the 31 officers and 469 men present. The regiment was exchanged and assigned to Tilghman's and J.Adams' Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. For a time it served in the Vicksburg area, then transferred to the Army of Tennessee. Placed in J.Adams' and Lowry's Brigade, the 20th was involved in the Atlanta and Tennessee Campaigns and ended the war in North Carolina. Only a remnant surrendered on April 26, 1865. Its commanders were Colonels William N. Brown and D.R. Russell; Lieutenant Colonels D.H. Maury, Horace H. Miller, and Walter A. Rorer; and Majors William M. Chatfield, Thomas B. Graham, and C.K. Massey.