William E. W. Perdue
Transcribed and Submitted by
Janet
Perdue King
Age: 26
Rank Entering the Service: Private
Rank Leaving the Service: Private
Military Unit: 30th Infantry Regiment
Alternate Name for the Military Unit:
Company: I
Enlistment Date: 22 NOV 1861
Place of Enlistment: Tyree Springs, Sumner Co., Tennessee
Abstract of Information available in the Service Records:
Captured 16 Feb 1862 Fort Donelson. His name appears on a Roll of Prisoners of
War at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. He took the Oath of Allegiance.
Personal Information about the Veteran (Not contained in the CMSR):
Wm E. W. Perdue was born in Sumner Co., TN to Lee and Mary Wyatt Perdue. He
had married in 1857 to his cousin Harriet Leavinia Barber. Family tradition
says William Perdue escaped before a prisoner exchange at Vicksburg,
Mississippi September of 1862. He seems always to have been a "wanted man" in
these family stories and may have been part of a guerilla band made up of
former Confederate soldies serving under Captain Ellis Harper. William Perdue
died August of 1866 in Sumner Co., TN and was buried in unmarked grave at
Shanklin Cemetery in Sumner Co., TN.
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