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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Burditt

"Will"

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated in a hospital in Richmond then on furlough from 13 (or 22) October 1862 to 1 May 1863, when he was listed as absent without leave in Austin, TX. He was assigned to Capt. Cater's Company (probably part of the Cavalry Force, Military Division of the South West) in Austin by 8 December 1863. He was paroled there on 27 July 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1656]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26601]

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