Jasper Newton Haney

Age 16, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was sent to a hospital, sick, in May 1862.

He was still sick and away from his company when they fought at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but rejoined them in time to be severely wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 18 October He was permanently disabled by his Sharpsburg wound and did not return to his company. On 7 April 1863 he was detailed to work at the General Hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond, and he transferred to Howard's Grove hospital there in October. He was officially retired to the Invalid Corps at Talladega, AL on 27 August 1864.

By 1869 he was a lawyer at Selma, AL and County Solicitor there, but by 1880 and to at least 1900 was an attorney at Weatherford in Parker County, TX. He was elected the first Mayor of Canyon, Randall County, TX after its incorporation in 1906; Canyon is just south of Amarillo. In 1910 he resigned as Mayor and moved to Amarillo, continuing his law practice there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and a brief bio in Mrs C W Warwick's The Randall County Story From 1541 to 1910 (1969). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Florence Virginia Waddell (1847-1944) and they had 6 children between 1870 and 1890.

For an example of his post-war Republican political views, unusual for an ex-Confederate, see his 1874 public letter, from the Alabama Archives. Haney was later arrested for libeling Judge Craig in that letter, outcome not known.

12/15/1844 in AL

10/02/1920; Mineral Wells, TX; burial in Old City Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, TX