Background
He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, on May 21, 1841.
He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, on May 21, 1841.
He graduated from the Norfolk Military Academy in Virgina in 1859, and began studying medicine at Columbia College in Washington District of Columbia
That fall, but the Civil War changed his plans, and he joined the Confederate Army in May 1861 as a private in Turner Ashby"s regiment. He was promoted to first sergeant by the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was a courier for General Robert East. Lee. At Gettysburg he was made a captain, and later in the battle was taken prisoner.
He remained at the prison camp at Fort Delaware for the rest of the war.
He participated in both the first and second Battles of Bulletin Run, and the battles of Cedar Mountain, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Morton"s Ford, New Market, and in Stonewall Jackson"s Valley campaigns. He was wounded multiple times.
He joined the Maryland National Guard after the war and was promoted to the rank of major in 1868. In 1871 he was elected to the Maryland Legislature.
He died on December 25, 1933, at his home in Baltimore.
