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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Ross Clanahan

(1842 - 1919)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer, he enlisted at Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 29 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863 and was appointed 4th Sergeant on 7 May 1864.

After the War

By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Henderson County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1900 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Cunningham (1854-1945) in 1876 and they had 4 children between 1880 and 1890.

Birth

04/10/1842; Abbeville District, SC

Death

09/06/1919; Justin, TX; burial in Chandler Memorial Cemetery, Chandler, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1920]

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 26735]

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