From reading his Union Pension deposition, he joined because he heard that they were going to draft and that if you joined it wasn't so bad. He lived in a rural community of South Carolina back near the Mountains. The community knew he was black, I don't know how the recruiter missed it. He was captured after the Battle of Missionary Ridge (Tenn.) as they fled to Georgia. I see he was scheduled for exchange but never exchanged. He ended up a prison camp until he joined the Union.
I have not seen a picture of him. His sons I do have pictures of and most were what people back in the day called "swarthy".

My original military info came from another researcher. I doubted his Civil War service and went to the National Archives to get his pension records and see for myself. I am still at a lost as to why he is listed on the muster rolls as a private. Black people got rank on the Confederate side???