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(1836 - 1872)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 15 July 1861 in Robertson County, TX as a Private, Company C, 4th Texas Innfantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
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.
References & notes
Service information from Polley1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. He's also seen as Ph. J. and P.J. Barziza. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
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.
He married Clarissa Mason (1845-1939) in May 1865 and they had a son Phillip Dorsey Barziza (1872-1948).
Birth
06/19/1836; Williamsburg, VA
Death
07/15/1872; Houston, TX; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX
1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 319 [AotW citation 1703]
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 26573]