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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Harrison Dansby

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known by Harrison, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was absent on furlough in October, then returned to duty. He was slightly wounded in the foot on 13 December 1864, place not given, and in Richmond hospitals into January 1865. He was surrendered at Citronelle, AL and paroled in Jackson, MS on 19 May 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was living with his widowed mother and another family on a farm in Angelina County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as Harrison Dansby. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1870.

His brother Jonathan Dansby (1834-1917) served in Company B, 31st Texas Cavalry.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1791]

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 26659]

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