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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel C. Wilson

(1841 - 1868)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was slightly wounded in his left side on 6 May 1864, in the Wilderness, VA, and again, seriously, by a gunshot to his left forearm on 7 October 1862 at Darbytown Road near Petersburg, VA. He was furloughed home for 50 days on 22 October. He was evaluated by a medical board in Richmond on 1 March 1865 and deemed fully disabled. He was surrendered and paroled in Charlotte, NC on 11 May 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/27/1841; Charlotte, NC

Death

06/28/1868; burial in Bagdad Cemetery, Leander, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1699]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26799]

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