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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Russell Houston

(1833 - 1872)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was working on his father's substantial farm with 3 of his 6 brothers at Lavernia (La Vernia), Bexar County, TX. 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 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was frequently absent, sick in Virginia hospitals. He was furloughed home on 7 March 1863 and the furlough was extended after he was examined in San Antonio on 30 April. He was discharged by March 1864 while still in the Trans-Mississippi Department with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; which has his middle name as James, source unknown.

Birth

01/17/1833 in TN

Death

02/20/1872; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Seguin, 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 1798]

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 26872]

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