Phillip Ignatius Barziza, Jr.

Son of an Italian-born nobleman who came to Williamsburg, VA in 1815, he was born and raised there. He graduated from William & Mary, studied the law, and moved to Texas by 1850, where he was a planter and lawyer at Wheelock, Robertson County. He enlisted there on 15 July 1861 as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was ill in Howard's Grove General Hospital in Richmond, VA from 6 May to 3 September 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his abdomen at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863 and was absent from his Company in hospital or on furlough afterward. He was in a hospital in Houston, TX in April 1864 and listed as absent without leave by June, but was probably the "Captain" P.I. Barziza, enrolling officer for the regiment at Houston, TX to the end of the war.

He was a railroad lawyer in Houston, TX.

Service information from Polley1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. He's also seen as Ph. J. and P.J. Barziza. Personal details from his father's bio sketch in Lewis' History of Texas, together with a Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston ... (1895). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the collection of the San Jacinto Museum of History; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.

He married Clarissa Mason (1845-1939) in May 1865 and they had a son Phillip Dorsey Barziza (1872-1948).

His brother Decimus et Ultimus Barziza (1838-1882) was also in the 4th Texas - First Lieutenant/Captain of Company C - but was not in Maryland after being wounded at 2nd Manassas.

06/19/1836; Williamsburg, VA

07/15/1872; Houston, TX; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX