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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Wade Pearce

(1843 - 1900)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported absent on South Mountain/Boonsboro (14 September), but wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was in Richmond, VA hospitals until discharged for disability due to wounds on 20 October 1862. He applied to raise a Company of Cadets for Confederate service in September 1863, but does not appear to have been successful. He was paroled at Millican, TX on 10 July 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eugenia Goodrich (1842-1918) in January 1866 in Grimes County and they had two children.

Birth

1843; Travis County, TX

Death

07/30/1900; Navasota, TX; burial in Oakland City Cemetery, Navasota, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Charles E., Jr., Three years in the army: The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers ..., Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1855]

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 26699]

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