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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Haywood G. Hickman

(1830 - 1914)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1850 he was a resident of Lafayette, Ouachita County, Arkansas, and was in Anderson County, TX by 1860. He mustered as 1st Corporal in Company H, First Texas Infantry on 24 June 1861 in New Orleans. He was reduced to Private, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in both thighs and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 10-11 October 1862, then transferred to Baltimore; paroled, date not given. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant, date not given. He was wounded again, at Chaffin's Farm, VA on 29 September 1864 and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.

After the War

He was living in Union County, Arkansas by 1870.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Sharpsburg wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. Personal information from family genealogists and US Census records.

Birth

03/28/1830; Fayette, AL

Death

11/25/1914; Union County, AR

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1519]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 57 [AotW citation 20970]

3 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 #843 [AotW citation 20969]

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