He enlisted in the 5th Texas Infantry, CSA, it being one of the regiments that composed the Hood's Brigade and participated in the following battles: Manassas, Fisher's Bridge, the Seven Days' battles around Richmond, and others that Hood's Brigade was engaged in up to Sept. 1863. He was promoted and transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department. He, with Maj. Clemson, a grandson of John C. Calhoun, was detailed and sent to San Antonio, TX, with a large amount of Confederate money, as distributing officers. The two men, along with the money, were captured near the Mississippi River on Sept. 9, taken to Johnson's Island off Sandusky, Ohio and held for 22 months before being released.
He enlisted in the 5th Texas Infantry, CSA, it being one of the regiments that composed the Hood's Brigade and participated in the following battles: Manassas, Fisher's Bridge, the Seven Days' battles around Richmond, and others that Hood's Brigade was engaged in up to Sept. 1863. He was promoted and transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department. He, with Maj. Clemson, a grandson of John C. Calhoun, was detailed and sent to San Antonio, TX, with a large amount of Confederate money, as distributing officers. The two men, along with the money, were captured near the Mississippi River on Sept. 9, taken to Johnson's Island off Sandusky, Ohio and held for 22 months before being released.
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