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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Harman

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip and side in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was absent, recovering to at least August, when he applied for a transfer to the cavalry for medical reasons from the CSA General Hospital in Staunton, VA.

On 28 September he was transferred to Company A, 8th Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers) with the the Army of Tennessee, with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as William H. Harmon.

Birth

c. 1842

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1735]

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 26830]

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