Sylvester F. WILSON

  General Notes:

OCCUPATION: Farmer (1880 U.S. Census)
RESIDENCES: Marion County, AR (1880 U.S. Census);
Campbell, Lawrence County, AR (1900 U.S. Census)

MILITARY: Per Forest Greeley Wilson --
Civil War, Army of Confederate States, enlisted June 9, 1861 at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He traveled from Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas, a distance of 240 miles to enlist. He was paid $100.00 for his horse and $15.00 for his equipment. His pay was 40 cents a day. He fought in the following battles:

Nesho, Missouri, July 5, 1861
Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861
Pea Ridge, March 7 - 8, 1862
Richmond, Kentucky, August 29-30, 1862
Murfreesboro, December 3l, 1862 - January 3, 1863
Jackson siege, July, 1863
Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863
Chicamauga Siege, September - November, 1863
Atlanta Campaign, May - September, 1864
Dug Gap, May 8, 1864
Resaca, May 14-15, 1864
Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864
Atlanta, July 22, 1864
Ezra Church, July 28, 1864
Atlanta Siege, July - September, 1864
Jonesboro, August 31 - September 1, 1864
Lovejoy's Station, September 2-5, 1864
Moon's Station, October 4, 1864
Franklin, November 30, 1864
Nashville, December 15-16, 1864
Sugar Creek, December 26, 1864
Carolinas Campaign, February - April, 1865
Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865

Pvt. Sylvester Wilson, along with his unit, surrendered to the Union forces on April 26, 1865, at Durham Station, North Carolina.

  Research Notes:

-- Craig Blyeth, My American Family, December 2004 (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:3032218)
-- Liz (Hoover) Erickson's Family Tree (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=liz_erickson)
-- Smith Family Tree (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13769941)

Sylvester married Amanda Jane NEWTON, daughter of Ebenezer "Ebb" B. NEWTON and Nancy Jane JONES, in Tennessee. (Amanda Jane NEWTON was born about 1861 in Iron County, Missouri and died before 1900.)