William Jasper Dillon

In 1860 he was a 15 year old son of a blacksmith in Iredell County, NC. On 1 March 1862, giving his age as 18, he enlisted as a Private in Company H of the 4th North Carolina Infantry at Williamsburg, NC.

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was briefly a prisoner at Fort Delaware until sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh at Cold Harbor, VA on 30 May 1864 and was in hospitals in Richmond, VA to 25 July where he also suffered with gangrene, then furloughed for 60 days to Union Grove, NC. There is no later military record in his file.

By 1870 he was a farmer next-door to his in-laws at Union Grove, Iredell County, NC. In 1880 he was farming at New Castle in Wilkes County, NC and by 1900 he was a farmer in Chambersburg Township, Iredell County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3, and the Roster.2. Personal details (and a fine postwar photograph) from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Elizabeth Stack (1848-1927) in October 1866 and they had 9 children.

09/08/1845; Iredell County, NC

01/30/1904; Oak Forest, NC; burial in New Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Statesville, NC