[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Davis

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Richmond, VA as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a US field hospital on the J. Grove farm near Sharpsburg, date not given.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis,1 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1725]

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 26635]

« Search for another Person