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Confederate (CSV)

Private

W. H. P. Burton

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Waco as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 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

He was with his Company to the end of the war and he was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1756]

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 26856]

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