W. H. Kirven

He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 8 May 1862.

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

He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA and reduced again to Private on 27 February 1863. He was reported missing in action at Raccoon Mountain on 28 October 1863; he had been captured near Chattanooga on 29 October and was sent to Louisville, KY on 3 November for exchange. Rather than being exchanged, though, he was sent on to Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN the next day. He died of pneumonia while a prisoner there on 23 December 1863. He was originally buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, but probably removed with the other Confederate dead to Crown Hill Cemetery in 1933.

Service information from Davis,1 as Pvt. W.H. Kirvin, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His last name also spelled Kirvan. His memorial is on Findagrave, as Pvt W.H. Kirben.

12/23/1863; Indianapolis, IN; burial in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN