Hugh Lawson White Killian

A 23 year old farmer at Spring Hill, he enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861.

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

He was briefly in US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 10 and 11 October, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 13 October for exchange. He was then in hospitals in Richmond and then on furlough to 3 June 1863, when his furlough expired and he was listed as absent without leave.

He remained absent into June 1864, but was listed as present on the muster roll of July & August 1864, the last record. He was in hospitals in Richmond in September 1864 and assigned to the Invalid Corps in Waco, TX. He was retired as "totally disqualified" at Waco on 27 September 1864.

By 1880 he was farming in Montague County, TX.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as H. L. W. Killian. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Russell (1856-1834) in March 1871 and they had 8 children.

06/20/1838; Warren County, TN

08/08/1887; McLennan, TX; burial in Liberty Chapel Cemetery, Montague County, TX