Sidney E. Mosely

From Austin, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was sightly wounded in the ankle at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862 and was promoted to 2nd Corporal on 24 July.

He was ill and not with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was in action with them at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was 3rd Sergeant by July 1863 and 2nd Sergeant by May 1864. He was wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, was furloughed home on 10 June, but was back on duty in July. He was wounded again, severely, by a gunshot to his left leg on 7 October 1864, and captured, at Darbytown, VA. His leg was amputated in the lower third of his thigh at the 10th US Army Corps field hospital near Petersburg the same day.

He was then in US hospitals at Point of Rocks and in Fortress Monroe, VA until transferred on 4 May 1865 to the US prison at Camp Hamilton, VA (?). He was sent to Newport News on 9 May and took an oath of allegiance there on 16 June 1865 and was released.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as S.E. Mosely and S.E. Morseland.