William Alexander Thompson Oliver

He mustered as Private in Company D, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant in March 1862.

He was wounded by gunshot in the left groin in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 October to 8 November, when he was sent on to Baltimore. He was exchanged and returned to duty, date not known. He was again captured, at Gettysburg, PA on 5 July 1863 and detailed to stay with the wounded at Cashtown, PA. By September he was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD, where he served as Sergeant of the cookhouse. He was exchanged 25 December 1863 with no further record.

He had a large and prosperous farm in Etowah County, AL where he'd lived since "a very young man". He was active in Confederate reunions, a member of the Emma Sansom Camp, UCV, in Gadsen.

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson,2 who have him as W.A.T. Oliver. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as A.T. Oliver. His duty at Point Lookout from an interview about conditions there he and other prisoners had with General Benjamin Butler on 23 December 1863 (in a report from Butler to Secretary of War Stanton on 27 December 1863). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of post-war details from his obituary in the Gadsen Times of 7 October 1930.

He was one of seven Olivers who served in Company D of the First Texas.

11/16/1839; Lowndesville, SC

10/07/1930; Etowah County, AL; burial in Forrest Cemetery, Gadsden, AL