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William Henry Derryberry

Birth
Henderson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
12 Jan 1865 (aged 20)
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Florence, Florence County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Private, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Company A, enlisted for 3 years on 8/9/1862 and mustered on 8/18/1862 in Lexington, TN. furnishing his own horse and equipment. Presumably captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/1864, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Moved to Florence, SC, he died in the prison hospital of chronic diarrhea on 1/12/1865. He was the son of Michael Wesley of Company H and Susan Wallace Derryberry.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Private, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Company A, enlisted for 3 years on 8/9/1862 and mustered on 8/18/1862 in Lexington, TN. furnishing his own horse and equipment. Presumably captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/1864, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Moved to Florence, SC, he died in the prison hospital of chronic diarrhea on 1/12/1865. He was the son of Michael Wesley of Company H and Susan Wallace Derryberry.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014


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