Walter Raleigh Jefferson

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his father's place at Mansfield in DeSoto Parish, LA. He enlisted in Corsicana in Navarro County, TX as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861. He was absent, sick, from October 1861 to 26 January 1862 and again in June and July.

He was captured at Williamsport, MD on 16 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October 1862 then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was frequently absent, sick in 1863, 1864, and 1865, almost continuously after June 1864, lastly treated for gonorrhea and chronic diarrhea. He was captured while a patient in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 3 April 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD on 9 May. He took an oath of allegiance there on 25 July and was in Washington, DC as a "refugee or rebel deserter" on 29 July 1865, and was provided transportation to Shreveport, LA.

By 1870 he was a school teacher at Henderson in Rusk County, TX. In 1880 he was a farmer in Cherokee County, TX.

Service information from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Catherine "Cally" McCorkle (1847-1931) in August 1866 in Rusk County, TX and they had 9 children.

11/11/1840; Wilcox County, AL

07/04/1895; San Saba County, TX; burial in Richland Springs Cemetery, Richland Springs, TX