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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William Luke Derden

(1838 - 1916)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Athens, TX as the First Sergeant of Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was reduced to Private by April 1862 but was appointed 3rd Sergeant on 15 June 1862.

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 elected 3rd Lieutenant on 1 October 1862 and promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 27 January 1863. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 5 October 1863, but tendered his resignation on 15 October 1863, result not given. He was dropped from the rolls, listed as absent without leave, on 26 April 1864. There is no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Palestine in Anderson County, TX. In 1910 he was a 71 year old stock raiser living in Corsicana, Navarro County.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Amanda Jones (1847-1912) in about 1867 and they had 10 children - 3 boys, 7 girls - by 1888.

Birth

08/25/1838 in MS

Death

06/27/1916; Corsicana, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, 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 1921]

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 26933]

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