CS Con Wilson, William Sydney - C.S. Delegate, MS

William Sydney Wilson:​

Born: November 7, 1816
Birthplace: Snow Hill Maryland
Father: US Congressman Ephraim King Wilson 1771 – 1834
(Buried: Makemie Memorial Cemetery Snow Hill Maryland)
Mother: Ann Gunby 1792 – 1846
(Buried: Makemie Memorial Cemetery Snow Hill Maryland)

Wife: None


Brother: U.S. Senator Ephraim King Wilson 1821 – 1891
(Buried: Makemie Memorial Cemetery Snow Hill Maryland)


Political Party: Democratic Party


Education:
Attended Jefferson College

Occupation before War:
Attorney in Port Gibson Mississippi
1858 – 1859: Mississippi State Representative
1860 – 1861: Mississippi State Representative
1860: Mississippi Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention
1860: Elected to draw up bill which would bring a state Convention

Civil War Career:
1861: Mississippi Delegate to Confederate Provisional Congress
Attended congress only a few days before resigning in March
1861: Recruiter of Claiborne Volunteers
Captain of Company F 2nd​ Mississippi Battalion
Major of 2nd​ Mississippi Battalion
1862: Served at the Battle of Seven Pines Virginia
1862: Mortally wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg Maryland


Died: November 3, 1862
Place of Death: Sharpsburg Maryland
Age at time of Death: 45 years old
Burial Place: Makemie Memorial Cemetery Snow Hill Maryland

 

[Pollaco]

One biography states that he was promoted to Lt.Col.for his mortal wounding at Antietam. A posthumous promotion maybe?

 

[Pollaco]

When Wilson resigned from the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States the vacancy was immediately filled by J. A. Orr.

 

[danny]

Too often, I read of those constructing an equivalence of this burning with the devastation of the South.