William Henry Burgess

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old clerk living with his parents and 5 siblings in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Richmond, VA on 10 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot to his hip at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 25 September and transferred to the Alabama Hospital there on 17 October 1862. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant on 28 June 1863 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July, and was captured at Greencastle, PA on 5 July. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 20 July, while a prisoner, was briefly at the Satterlee US Army hospital in Philadelphia then sent to a US Army hospital in Chester, PA. He was transferred to the prison at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH on 31 August, to Point Lookout, MD on 9 February 1864, and on to Fort Delaware on 25 June 1864. He took an oath of allegiance there and was released on 17 June 1865.

By 1880 he was a blacksmith in Bell County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Catherine Rampy (1844-1926) in October 1865 and they had 4 children.

11/17/1839 in GA

08/08/1892; Wichita Falls, TX; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Wichita Falls, TX