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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wallace McFearson

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, a farmer in Saltillo, he enlisted on 1 May 1861 as Private, Company E, 2nd Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was furloughed and returned to duty. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was listed as a deserter from a hospital in Richmond on 25 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from a casualty list/roster for the Campaign provided by Michael Brasher, from his research in Compiled Service Records, Company rolls, and other period sources. Gettybsurg and other details from Don Ernsberger's Also for Glory Muster: The Story of the Pettigrew Trimble Charge at Gettysburg (1999).

Birth

c. 1842