William Jasper Christian

He enlisted at age 20 in Orange County, NC in Company C, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 1 May 1861. He mustered in as a Corporal, and was promoted to Sergeant 1 April 1862. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 15 July 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was captured at Rappahannock Station, VA on 7 November 1863 and held at Johnson's Island, OH until released on 12 June 1865.

He clerked in a general store and for Rigsbee & Co. He was in elected office in Durham County as clerk of courts, and in the city of Durham on the council and as Mayor for two terms. He was then a banker - becoming president of the Merchant's Bank in Durham by 1913.

Basic information from Iobst1, with details from a bio sketch in History of North Carolina: North Carolina biography (1919). His gravesite is on Findagrave (probably listing wrong birth date). He died of Bright's disease.

12/13/1839; Orange County, NC

05/02/1920; Durham, NC; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, NC