From collection Member List
Captain 1862-66 (Unfinished Catalogue). History of Alabama and Dictonary of Alabama Biography, by Thomas McAdory Owen, p. 264: "elected first lieutenant of the Red Eagles, a company organized in Burnsville in 1860, and when it disbanded, he went to Virginia as a private in the Fourth Alabama . . . . remained with the regiment until after the battle of Williamsburg, and then joined Wheeler's cavalry."