From collection Member List
from Mattern: "i[nitiated Dec. 19, 1860 . . . enlisted, Aug. 24, 1861, as pvt., Co. G, 6th Miss. Inf. Confederate States Army, at Grenada, Miss., May 8, 1862, promoted to 2nd lieut.; later (date not found) to 1st lieut.; actively engaged for four years; captured twice but exchanged; had charge of the evacuation of Corinth, Miss., 1862; served under both Gens. Lee and Joseph E. Johnson; paroled, Jackson, Miss., May 15, 1865 . . . ." [Mattern, p. 42, says his portrait appears in his "regimentals"; pp. 47-48, wartime contact with US's JM Wells (Allegheny 1861).]
