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Submitted: 5/18/20 • Approved: 5/18/20 • Last Updated: 5/21/20 • R263438-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company I 3 Regiment Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
February 23, 1844 - September 5, 1913
Enlisted May 17, 1861, in New Orleans. In August 1862, he's reported as sick in the hospital in Enterprise, Mississippi, but returned to duty by September 1862. In February 1863, he re-enlisted at Corinth, Mississippi under the Conscript Act of May 8, 1862. On July 1, 1863, he was wounded while in the trenches at Vicksburg, Mississippi and his name appeared on a list of casualties of Hebert's Brigade during the siege of Vicksburg, May 17 - July 4, 1863. He was captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and paroled on July 8, 1863. On August 28, 1864, he was admitted to CSA General Hospital, Shreveport, Louisiana for intermittent fever. He was discharged on September 5, 1864.
The National Archives, Publication M320, Roll 0119
Louisiana Confederate Pension Application Index Database, Reel CP1.69 - Microdex 4 - Sequence 2
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