William Henry Harrison

A miller's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings at Kerr's Creek near Lexington in Rockbridge County, VA. He enlisted in Orange County, VA on 20 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Captain Peyton's Orange Artillery.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, the lower half of his left arm "torn off by a fragment of shell" with "no bleeding from torn vessels." His arm was amputated at the shoulder the next day and he was captured on the field.

He was paroled and sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore He as admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 29 October and was furloughed home on 6 November 1862; he was away from his company for the rest of the war. He was in Richmond to receive pay in April and September 1863. He was captured at Burkeville, VA on 6 April 1865, sent to Point Lookout, MD by way of City Point, VA on 14 April, and released after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States on 28 May 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a miller back at Kerr's Creek with his parents and siblings but by 1900 and to at least 1920, then 76 years old, he was a farmer there on his own place.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and medical details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Fannie Evelyn Hazelwood (1851-1921) in 1883 and they had 5 children.

08/21/1843; Rockbridge County, VA

11/22/1928; Rockbridge County, VA; burial in New Monmouth Presbyterian Cemetery, Rockbridge County, VA