William Jefferson Harper

Age 31, he enlisted at Dawson in Terrell County, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company F of the 51st Georgia Infantry.

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

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 28 March 1863, then sent to Fortress Monroe for exchange (he had previously been scheduled for exchange on 2 October and 15 December, but had been found "too weak" to travel). He was afterward on sick furlough from 17 April to 17 May.

He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 1 December 1863 and captured on 4 December, place not given, and was reduced to Private by October 1864. He was listed as absent with leave in March 1865, the latest record in his military file.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Preston in Webster County, GA but by 1880 was farming near Arkadelphia in Clark County, AR. In 1900 he was a farmer in McClennan County, TX and in 1910 was retired and living with his daughter Sallie (Oswald) and her family on their farm in Bosque County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Malissa Angeline Kendrick (1839-1873) in December 1853 and they had 9 children, 5 of whom survived to adulthood. Malissa's brother Burrell Jones Kendrick (1824-1912) was Captain of Company F of the 51st Georgia Infantry from their initial organization in March 1862 to his resignation in April 1863.

11/25/1830; Sumter County, GA

01/02/1911; Clifton, TX; burial in Oswald Cemetery, Clifton, TX