William C. Johnson

He enlisted at Harrisburg, TX as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 1 August 1861 and he was slightly wounded by a gunshot to the abdomen at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862. He was in hospitals and on furlough, to Mississippi, into August.

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

Due to lingering effects of his Gaines' Mill wound and other physical ailments, he was detailed as an ambulance driver on 16 October 1862, and to duty as a Ward Master in the Texas Hospital, Richmond, VA hospital on 1 February 1863. He was there on detached duty, or ill, or on furlough to October 1864. He was in Richmond hospitals as a patient, for epilipsia (epilepsy) in November, and discharged as permanently disabled on 2 December 1864. Giving his residence as Rankin County, MS, he was surrendered at Citronelle, AL and paroled at Meridian, MS on 12 May 1865 (or Jackson, MS on 19 May).

He was a resident of the Beauvoir Veteran's Home (or Jefferson Davis Soldiers' Home) in Biloxi, MS at the time of his death and may be buried there.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from the Beauvoir Veteran's Home resident list [males, PDF] compiled by the Beauvoir Veteran Project at the University of Southern Mississippi.

04/11/1841

02/01/1925; Biloxi, MS