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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William Howsley Parsons

(1831 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Jefferson County, he enlisted as 2nd Sergeant, Company G, 26th Alabama Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000) and the Alabama database.2 His death also in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as William Housley Parsons.

Birth

1831; Jefferson County, AL

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_g.htm [AotW citation 25529]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /soldier.cfm?id=154323 etc. [AotW citation 23021]

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