Feild (name variantly spelled Feilds, Field, and Fields), son of an Okolona, Mississippi CSA officer, entered R-MC as a cadet under the military curriculum in place in the fall of 1862 after having been expelled from VMI in February, 1862 for intoxication. When R-MC closed in early 1863, he returned to Mississippi and enlisted in Co. B of the 17th MS Partisan Rangers Cavalry.
In 1870, he was residing with his widowed mother in Okolona, MS and working as a hotel clerk in his mother's hotel. By 1900, he was a salesman in Yazoo City, MS. He died in Yazoo City on November 18, 1903.
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