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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Reuben T. Crigler

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 32 year old carpenter in San Antonio, he enlisted there as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 28 March 1862. He was wounded in the side at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was appointed First Corporal on 22 November 1862 and was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 11 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA. Brigade historian J.B. Polley wrote of him in action later in 1863, in Tennessee:

Old Reub Crigler, the second lieutenant of Company F, never goes into a fight without a gun and a chosen supply of cuss words to fling at the Yankees when he shoots. "There d--n you! see how you like that," or "Take that, you infernal son of a gun!" fell from his lips that day with an unction and regularity not at all complimentary to the intended victims of his wrath.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right shoulder in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, and afterward was in hospitals in Danville and Charlottesville, VA, then on furlough in Albemarle County, VA. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 18 August 1864 but was judged disabled by a medical examining board of 8 September 1864, and did not return to his Company.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who puts him at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, some of whom have him as Reuben T. Criegler. The quotes above from Polley's A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie (1908).

He married Persis Eleanor Wheeler (1832-1857) in October 1852 in San Antonio and they had a daughter, Sarah Martha “Sallie” Crigler (1853-1949).

Birth

c. 1830 in VA

Death

Date not known; Ballinger, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1787]

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 26657]

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