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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Homer Plaster

(1840 - 1927)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861 and was slightly wounded in the leg at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was detailed as a teamster from 20 January 1863 into February 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot through his left leg on 7 October 1862 at Suffolk, VA. He was in Richmond hospitals then furloughed on 15 November for 60 days to Brookhaven, TX, with no later military record.

After the War

He was a farmer near Temple in Bell County, TX to at least 1900, but finally retired by 1910.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as Joseph H. Plasters. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/27/1840; Bedias, TX

Death

09/02/1927; Temple, TX; burial in Hillcrest Cemetery, Temple, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1858]

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 26704]

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