According to a Bosque County history and an Ancestry Family Tree he was a shoemaker for the Confederate Army:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/213/

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/58127744/person/38066383756/facts?_phsrc=ACb64&_phstart=successSource