7th Infantry Regiment
Corporal William Riley Lamberson
7th Tennessee Infantry Company A
Captain Dowell's Company
He was born in May 1841 to the parents of John and Nancy Lamberson of Dekalb County, Tennessee, Temperance Post Office. In 1870 he was twenty-seven years old and was residing with his wife Amanda and their two children in Dekalb County, Tennessee, Alexandria Post Office. His occupation was a Farmer with a net worth of $800.00 in personal property. In 1900 he was fifty-nine years old and was residing with his wife Amanda and three of their children in Lamar County, Texas, in the town of Blossom in Pct. # 4. His occupation was a Farmer. In 1910 he was still residing with his wife Amanda and one of their children in Lamar County, Texas in the town of Blossom in Pct. # 4. His occupation was a doing odd jobs for support. At that time they had been married for over forty-one years and had eight children. Both he and his wife Amanda received a combined Confederate Veteran Pension from the State of Texas # 25452.
He was interned in CTRNW of section Blossom Cemetery on November 14, 1918. He was seventy-seven years old at the time of his death.
Brief History of the 7th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
7th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee, in May 1861, and in July, moved to Staunton, Virginia. The men were raised in DeKalb, Smith, Sumner, and Wilson counties. It participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign and for a time served under General T.J. Jackson. Later it was assigned to General S.R. Anderson's, Hatton's, Archer's, and McComb's Brigade. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, and then was involved in the long Petersburg siege south of the James River and the Appomattox Courthouse Campaign. This regiment reported 72 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 34 at Cedar Mountain, and 26 at Second Manassas, and 38 at Fredericksburg. It lost 11 killed and 45 wounded at Chancellorsville, and forty-six percent of the 249 engaged at Gettysburg. The unit surrendered 6 officers and 41 men. Its commanders were Colonels John A. Fite, John F. Goodner, and Robert Hatton; Lieutenant Colonels John K. Howard and S.G. Shepard; and Major William H. Williamson.
Reference
Confederate Veterans Who Died or are buried in Lamar County, Texas
http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/csadead.htm
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.htm
Heritage Quest
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/prod/genealogy/index
Submitted by Theodore Urbanski
December 26, 2004
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