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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wiley A. House

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company I, First Texas Infantry on 24 June 1861 in New Orleans.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the chest, probably mortally, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who has him as W.A. Holmes (!), and Simpson,2 who says he was killed outright. Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1540]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 68 [AotW citation 21006]

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