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H.J. Epperson
(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was the 23 year old overseer of 25 slaves on Eliza Mathews' plantation at Monterey/Jefferson in Marion County, TX. He enlisted in New Orleans on 16 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, First Texas Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the left hip and thigh, and also in the left foot and right arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 10 and 11 October then sent to Fort McHenry for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 24 October and furloughed home to Texas for 30 days on 5 November 1862. He was back on duty by February 1863 and was captured again, near Gerardstown, VA on 19 July 1863 and sent to Camp Chase, OH on 24 July. He was transferred to Fort Delaware on 29 February 1864 and a prisoner there from 3 March until he took an oath of allegiance to the United States on 19 June 1865 and was released.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 Simpson,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Hospital detail from the Patient List.4 Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His picture from a photograph posted to Reddit by his 4x great-grandson in 2019; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for sending a copy.
Birth
c. 1838 in GA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 - 143 [AotW citation 1421]
2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 17 [AotW citation 20848]
3 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 33702]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #912 [AotW citation 20901]