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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Charles Wipprecht

(c. 1815 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

At age 46 he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861 and was appointed 5th Sergeant by December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

In February 1864 he was found unfit for field service with a goiter pressing on his larynx, and after 9 March 1864 he was acting regimental Commissary Sergeant. In February 1865 he was detailed to the President's Guard with no later record.

After the War

In 1877 he was Postmaster in Seguin, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as C. Wiprecht, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Weipprecht, Wipperecht, Wiprecht, etc.

Birth

c. 1815

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1753]

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 26852]

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