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- He served in the 16th North Carolina Brigade and was captured at Gettysburg, moved to Missouri in 1868, studied medicine and served as a physician in Chillicothe, Missouri.
He enlisted in the Confederate service as a private, in Company E, 16th North Carolina. He accompanied the regiment throughout the entire struggle, and participated in the great battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, the battles around Richmond, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry. Antietam, Ball's Bluff, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the sixty days fighting around Richmond and the closing battles of the war. He was in Stonewall Jackson's command, A.P. Hill's division. General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was promoted to be first lieutenant after Yorktown; captain at Seven Pines or Fair Oaks; lieutenant-colonel after Gettysburg; and commanded his regiment the last month of the war and at the surrender of Appomattox Court House. At Gettysburg, on the second day, he commanded a brigade. He was wounded in four different places at the battle of Chancellorsville. He was taken prisoner at the Rock Wall on the third day of the Gettysburg fight. He was confined first at Fort McHenry, next at Fort Delaware. and then at Johnson's Island. At the latter place he was drawn to be shot, in retaliation for the Fort Pillow massacre, but was reserved and exchanged to be with his regiment in Grant's last advance on Richmond.
He graduated from the medical department of Louisville University in the winter of 1867-8. He located, the same year, in Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, and entered upon the practice of medicine. He graduated, in 1870, from the Missouri Medical College, and has ever since pursued the practice of his profession at Chillicothe.
(The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self Made Men, pub. 1878, vol 4, p. 729)
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1839 - 1913 (73 years)
