Colonel William F. Beasley, was the youngest son of John Baptist Beasley and Mary Alexander. In 1861, when he was sixteen years old the war between the states started. At that time, he was a cadet in a military academy.
After he enlisted:
"Col Beasley was part of the Seven Days' campaign in front of Richmond in June 1862, and in the first Maryland campaign during the following September, including Antietam and the capture of Harper's Ferry by Jackson. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he received a severe wound, and was for a season confined to the hospital. By a strange irony of fate, Col. Beasley took part in the recapture of his hometown in April 1864 by Gen R. D. Hoke. This engagement resulted in the town, garrison, and supplies all falling back into CSA hands. Col. Beasley was the youngest of those to attain the rank of colonel of junior reserves in the Army of the Confederacy, being only twenty when the war ended." (Henry E. Shepard, Confederate Veteran, Vol XXXI, 1923, p 263.) 71st NC Troops, youngest officer of his rank in the Confederate Army.
After the war, he married Mary Sidney Hewett, the daughter of a Louisville Kentucky physician to the Union army, and they had six children. At his death, he wore an eye patch because he lost an eye subsequent to the war.
Colonel Beasley is my husband's great grandfather
After he enlisted:
"Col Beasley was part of the Seven Days' campaign in front of Richmond in June 1862, and in the first Maryland campaign during the following September, including Antietam and the capture of Harper's Ferry by Jackson. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he received a severe wound, and was for a season confined to the hospital. By a strange irony of fate, Col. Beasley took part in the recapture of his hometown in April 1864 by Gen R. D. Hoke. This engagement resulted in the town, garrison, and supplies all falling back into CSA hands. Col. Beasley was the youngest of those to attain the rank of colonel of junior reserves in the Army of the Confederacy, being only twenty when the war ended." (Henry E. Shepard, Confederate Veteran, Vol XXXI, 1923, p 263.) 71st NC Troops, youngest officer of his rank in the Confederate Army.
After the war, he married Mary Sidney Hewett, the daughter of a Louisville Kentucky physician to the Union army, and they had six children. At his death, he wore an eye patch because he lost an eye subsequent to the war.
Colonel Beasley is my husband's great grandfather
Colonel William F. Beasley, was the youngest son of John Baptist Beasley and Mary Alexander. In 1861, when he was sixteen years old the war between the states started. At that time, he was a cadet in a military academy.
After he enlisted:
"Col Beasley was part of the Seven Days' campaign in front of Richmond in June 1862, and in the first Maryland campaign during the following September, including Antietam and the capture of Harper's Ferry by Jackson. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he received a severe wound, and was for a season confined to the hospital. By a strange irony of fate, Col. Beasley took part in the recapture of his hometown in April 1864 by Gen R. D. Hoke. This engagement resulted in the town, garrison, and supplies all falling back into CSA hands. Col. Beasley was the youngest of those to attain the rank of colonel of junior reserves in the Army of the Confederacy, being only twenty when the war ended." (Henry E. Shepard, Confederate Veteran, Vol XXXI, 1923, p 263.) 71st NC Troops, youngest officer of his rank in the Confederate Army.
After the war, he married Mary Sidney Hewett, the daughter of a Louisville Kentucky physician to the Union army, and they had six children. At his death, he wore an eye patch because he lost an eye subsequent to the war.
Colonel Beasley is my husband's great grandfather
After he enlisted:
"Col Beasley was part of the Seven Days' campaign in front of Richmond in June 1862, and in the first Maryland campaign during the following September, including Antietam and the capture of Harper's Ferry by Jackson. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he received a severe wound, and was for a season confined to the hospital. By a strange irony of fate, Col. Beasley took part in the recapture of his hometown in April 1864 by Gen R. D. Hoke. This engagement resulted in the town, garrison, and supplies all falling back into CSA hands. Col. Beasley was the youngest of those to attain the rank of colonel of junior reserves in the Army of the Confederacy, being only twenty when the war ended." (Henry E. Shepard, Confederate Veteran, Vol XXXI, 1923, p 263.) 71st NC Troops, youngest officer of his rank in the Confederate Army.
After the war, he married Mary Sidney Hewett, the daughter of a Louisville Kentucky physician to the Union army, and they had six children. At his death, he wore an eye patch because he lost an eye subsequent to the war.
Colonel Beasley is my husband's great grandfather
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The tombstone on his grave has been vandalized at least once and may have been completely destroyed
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