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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Briggs William Hopson, Jr.

(1843 - 1901)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Giving his occupation as a student, not yet 18 years old, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the left arm, through his elbow joint, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent on furlough to 25 February 1863 when he was listed as absent without leave at La Grange, TX. He was still gone in August 1863, the date of the last available muster roll. However, on 1 March 1864 he obtained a certificate of disability from his Sharpsburg wound

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer at Round Top in Fayette County, TX and was still farming, near La Grange, in 1900.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy McCreary Wilkinson (1845-1878) in October 1864 and they had 4 children.

Birth

08/05/1843; Colorado County, TX

Death

06/16/1901; La Grange, TX; burial in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1676]

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 26615]

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