William Hiram Turner

He enrolled on 20 July 1861 in Amherst County, VA and mustered as First Lieutenant of Battery D (Captain Bernard Roemer) of the Wise Legion Artillery. He was commanding as senior officer present by January 1862, they were reorganized as an independent battery in February, and he was promoted to Captain when Roemer resigned on 3 March. They were assigned to Hilary P Jones' Battalion in July.

He commanded the battery in Maryland. They were at Sharpsburg on 15 September 1862 and engaged there on the 17th from their position on Cemetery Hill near the town.

The battery was disbanded on 4 October 1862 (S.O. No. 209, ANV) and the men of the battery assigned to Captain Fry's Company, Virginia Light Artillery. He continued in Confederate service, commanding the 4th Battalion Virginia Artillery (Reserves), ending the war sick in a Farmville, VA hospital.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer back in Amherst County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists (also as William Hyrum Turner) and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anna Maria Shearer (1839-1927) in Appomattox, VA in May 1865 and they had a son William, Jr.

08/19/1832; Amherst County, VA

09/04/1904; burial in Turner Family Cemetery, Amherst County, VA