Washington Jefferson Berry

In 1860 he was 20 years old and lived with his parents and siblings at Harrisville in Simpson County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the hand and face in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA into at least November 1862, but was back with his Company by December 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot in August 1864, in hospitals in Richmond, VA to 23 September. He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 9 June 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer next door to his father Prior and brother William at Westville in Simpson County, MS. He was still farming there to at least 1880.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as W.G. Berry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Barlow (1849-1892) in 1865 and they had 8 children between 1867 and 1877. He married again, Lou Hester (1852-) in April 1893.

11/09/1839; Scott County, MS

11/18/1909; Simpson County, MS; burial in Harrisville Cemetery, Harrisville, MS