William McCusker

In 1860 he was a 30 year old merchant at Holmesville in Pike County, MS. Giving his age as 27, he enlisted at Holmesville on 23 April 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was reduced to Private at the Army reorganization of 26 April 1862, but appointed 3rd Sergeant by August 1862.

He was wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 29 October and returned to duty on 2 December 1862. He was 5th Sergeant by April 1863 and promoted to 2nd Sergeant by August 1863. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD. He was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 14 March 1865 for exchange with no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Sgt McClusky. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his death notice in the Magnolia Gazette of 4 January 1873.

He married Virginia Miskell and they had a son William J McCusker (1871-1946).

c. 1830 in NY

01/01/1873; Holmesville, MS