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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Lon Piper

(c. 1834 - 1885)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

By 1850 he was living on the family farm at Austin, TX. He enlisted there as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 March 1862. He was slightly wounded in the knee at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company 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 hospitals in Winchester and Richmond, VA, then furloughed for 90 days on 18 November 1862. He remained on furlough to 1 May 1863, after which he was listed as absent without leave at Austin, TX.

After the War

By 1880 he was farming his own place in Travis County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as William I. Piper, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850 and 1880.

He married Margaret J Burditt (1846-1911) in March 1865 and they had 8 children.

Birth

c. 1834; Smith County, TN

Death

1885; in 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 1689]

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 26621]

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