Private CSA William Dunbar Gross

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About Private CSA William Dunbar Gross

Private William Dunbar Gross (1820-1897,) of the 6th Mississippi “The Bloody Sixth” Infantry. Captured at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, spent the rest of the war at Rock Island Pow Camp Illinois. When the Civil Was was over, the Federals offered him a train ride back to his home in Carthage, Mississippi if he signed an oath of allegiance to the United States, or walk home If he didn’t sign.

He walked home.

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Private CSA William Dunbar Gross's Timeline

1820
August 28, 1820
Grundy, TN, United States
1849
May 20, 1849
Carthage, MS, United States
1852
February 20, 1852
1854
December 20, 1854
Leake, MS, United States
1855
May 1855
Carthage, Leake County, MS, United States
1857
March 27, 1857
1860
April 15, 1860
1862
January 16, 1862
1864
May 14, 1864
1866
October 10, 1866