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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Givens

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

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

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He and Private James C. Loggins escaped in July 1864 and returned to their unit by August. He's last seen on a Richmond hospital record of 8 October 1864 and may have been furloughed to Jackson, MS.

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. 157-158 [AotW citation 1795]

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 26870]

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