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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William A. Parker

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Grimes County as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded by a gunshot with "compound fracture" in action while Color Bearer at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, left on the field, and captured.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September and sent to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October, but died there on 18 December 1862; 18 years old. He was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick the next day.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1844

Death

12/18/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 161 - 162 [AotW citation 1885]

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 26720]

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