Russell Price

A 25 year old farmer, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 3 April 1862.

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was absent from his Company, recovering in Richmond, VA hospitals until 30 January 1863 when he briefly rejoined them. He returned to the hospital on 2 February and was finally back on duty on 15 March 1863.

He was detailed to a hospital as a nurse on 25 March 1864 to at least August 1864 (the last muster roll in the files). On 3 November 1864 he applied for a transfer to the Trans-Mississippi Department, but was apparently denied, as he was an Assistant Steward at the Breckenridge Hospital in Marion, VA when he was examined on 15 February 1865 and found to have "Epilepsy & loss of fingers left hand."

By 1870 he was a farmer at Athens, Henderson County, TX. In 1880 he was a minister in Anderson County. By 1900 he was working on a farm at Gatesville in Coryell County.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mahala (?, 1840-1860) in July 1855 in Anderson County, TX and they had a duaghter Sarah. He married again, Mary Susan Hobgood (1853-) in May 1870 at Athens, TX and they had 7 more.

09/17/1836; Claiborne Parish, LA

12/18/1905; Gatesville, TX; burial in Gatesville City Cemetery, Gatesville, TX