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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Henry Gunn

(1829 - 1916)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Clark, Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in the Texas Hospital in Richmond, VA from 5 January to 8 February for a gunshot wound to his left leg (place of wounding not given), and in a Farmville, VA hospital in April; he returned to duty on the 17th. He was severely wounded in the back on 7 October 1864, was in a Richmond hospital by the 8th, and was furloughed to North Carolina for 45 days on 20 October. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In August 1870 he was farming a small place at Belmont in Gonzales County with a new wife and first child, infant son Taylor Davidson Gunn (1870-1954), and he was still farming in the county in 1900.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as Henry Gunn, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family geneaolgists and the US Census for 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann Taylor (1847-1936) in July 1869 and they had 7 children.

Birth

01/14/1829; Robeson County, NC

Death

07/04/1916; Gonzales County, TX; burial in Thompsonville Cemetery, Thompsonville, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1628]

2 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 26744]

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