Private, company A, Second Infantry (First Infantry, Moore's Regiment; Galveston Regiment; Van Dorn Regiment). Enlisted with his brother Thomas Jefferson Laird. [3]
Sources
↑ First-hand information as remembered by Donna Nelson, Monday, April 7, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
↑ Entered by Donna Nelson, Monday, December 30, 2013.
↑ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations, compiled 1903 - 1927, documenting the period 1861 - 1865; Catalog ID: 586957; Record Group #: 109; Roll #: 261.
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