William Jasper Morrison

Son of a cooper, in 1860, going by Jasper, he was a 19 year old school teacher living with his parents and 6 siblings at Hendersonville in Henderson County, NC. He enlisted in Grahamville, SC on 28 November 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 25th North Carolina Infantry. He was absent from his company, sick, between June and August 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was appointed Musician about December 1863 but was listed as a deserter from Weldon, NC on 17 March 1864. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States at Louisville, KY on 5 November 1864, was in Knoxville, TN by the 14th, and was sent to Chattanooga, TN on 16 November with a "pass to Indiana" and released on 25 November with instructions to "remain north of the Ohio River" during the war.

He was in Long Beach, CA by 1896.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susanna Lucinda Case (1843-c. 1867) in December 1865 and they had a daughter Mary. He married again, Anna M. Wingett (1845-1872) in September 1871 and they had a daughter Georgia. He married for the third time, the widow Anna Elizabeth Theuss Melvin (1845-) in November 1879 and they had a daughter Marie Eloise.

His brother James (1843-1902) was also in Company A and may have been in Maryland with him in September 1862.

c. 1841; Henderson County, NC

02/01/1900; burial in Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, Long Beach, CA