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(1843 - 1924)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Anderson in Grimes County, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to 2nd Corporal on 1 May 1864 and slightly wounded in the leg in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was promoted again, to 5th Sergeant, date not given, and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Anderson, TX.
References & notes
His service information from Davis,1 as W.J. Grissett, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, as William J. Grissett. Personal details from the US Census of 1880-1910 and family genealogists, some also as William Joseph Grissett; his father apparently used Gressett, but William is seen with both, as are his siblings and children. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lucinda Elizabeth Chaddick (1844-1911) in July 1866 in Grimes County, TX and they had 6 children.
Birth
06/25/1843 in MS
Death
11/30/1924; Roans Prairie, TX; burial in Old Oakland Cemetery, Roans Prairie, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1840]
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 26965]