Wesley Cherry

In 1860 he was a 23 year old laborer in Columbus, Colorado County, TX. He enlisted there on 10 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry. He was detailed to assist the regimental blacksmith in December 1861.

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

He was sent to a hospital in Winchester, VA then on to one in Richmond, VA on 28 September. He returned to his unit on 30 October 1862. He was slightly wounded twice more; in the arm in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and again on 7 October 1864, in the head. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was farming at Osage in Colorado County, TX. He joined the Texas State Police and was killed in a shootout in Lampasas, TX on 14 March 1873.

His service from Polley,1 who says he was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA (1862) and Gettysburg, PA (1863), as W.S. Cherry, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah A Rhodes (1841-) in September 1865. He married again, Corilla Ware (1848-) in December 1869 and they had 2 daughters.

See much more about his death from the Officer Down page for him.

c.1837 in AL

03/14/1873; Lampasas, TX; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lampasas, TX