William Withrow Wier
William was the son of Rev. William Wier and Elizabeth Lipscomb. He married Abbie Hellen on December 9, 1851 in Mobile, Alabama.
Records from National Archive shows he was first listed in service as a 3rd Lt. in the 14th MS Infantry Regiment. That regiment was captured at Ft. Donelson in 1862, although Wier escaped. He returned to Enterprise, MS and was part of the organizing unit of the McLain Rifles of Clarke County and was elected Captain. The 37th Infantry Regiment was mustered in March, 1862 and the McLain Rifles were Company B.
William Wier eventually rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in this unit. He was gravely wounded at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 22, 1864. He returned to Enterprise to recuperate. His final assignment after recovery during the war was as commander of a short-lived unit that Rowland Dunbar's Military History of MS, page 144 called the First Confederate Veterans. That unit was a combination of different troops pulled together in a unit that Col. Wier called the 2nd Corinthians.
After the war, Col. Wier was elected and served two terms as Chancery Clerk of Clarke County, Mississippi. They moved to Anniston in 1888.
His Civil War uniform was on display in a glass case at "Beauvoir," the Jefferson Davis memorial at Biloxi, Mississippi, which was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beauvoir was saved and restored, but Col. Wier's uniform was lost.
William was the son of Rev. William Wier and Elizabeth Lipscomb. He married Abbie Hellen on December 9, 1851 in Mobile, Alabama.
Records from National Archive shows he was first listed in service as a 3rd Lt. in the 14th MS Infantry Regiment. That regiment was captured at Ft. Donelson in 1862, although Wier escaped. He returned to Enterprise, MS and was part of the organizing unit of the McLain Rifles of Clarke County and was elected Captain. The 37th Infantry Regiment was mustered in March, 1862 and the McLain Rifles were Company B.
William Wier eventually rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in this unit. He was gravely wounded at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 22, 1864. He returned to Enterprise to recuperate. His final assignment after recovery during the war was as commander of a short-lived unit that Rowland Dunbar's Military History of MS, page 144 called the First Confederate Veterans. That unit was a combination of different troops pulled together in a unit that Col. Wier called the 2nd Corinthians.
After the war, Col. Wier was elected and served two terms as Chancery Clerk of Clarke County, Mississippi. They moved to Anniston in 1888.
His Civil War uniform was on display in a glass case at "Beauvoir," the Jefferson Davis memorial at Biloxi, Mississippi, which was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beauvoir was saved and restored, but Col. Wier's uniform was lost.
William Withrow Wier
William was the son of Rev. William Wier and Elizabeth Lipscomb. He married Abbie Hellen on December 9, 1851 in Mobile, Alabama.
Records from National Archive shows he was first listed in service as a 3rd Lt. in the 14th MS Infantry Regiment. That regiment was captured at Ft. Donelson in 1862, although Wier escaped. He returned to Enterprise, MS and was part of the organizing unit of the McLain Rifles of Clarke County and was elected Captain. The 37th Infantry Regiment was mustered in March, 1862 and the McLain Rifles were Company B.
William Wier eventually rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in this unit. He was gravely wounded at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 22, 1864. He returned to Enterprise to recuperate. His final assignment after recovery during the war was as commander of a short-lived unit that Rowland Dunbar's Military History of MS, page 144 called the First Confederate Veterans. That unit was a combination of different troops pulled together in a unit that Col. Wier called the 2nd Corinthians.
After the war, Col. Wier was elected and served two terms as Chancery Clerk of Clarke County, Mississippi. They moved to Anniston in 1888.
His Civil War uniform was on display in a glass case at "Beauvoir," the Jefferson Davis memorial at Biloxi, Mississippi, which was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beauvoir was saved and restored, but Col. Wier's uniform was lost.
William was the son of Rev. William Wier and Elizabeth Lipscomb. He married Abbie Hellen on December 9, 1851 in Mobile, Alabama.
Records from National Archive shows he was first listed in service as a 3rd Lt. in the 14th MS Infantry Regiment. That regiment was captured at Ft. Donelson in 1862, although Wier escaped. He returned to Enterprise, MS and was part of the organizing unit of the McLain Rifles of Clarke County and was elected Captain. The 37th Infantry Regiment was mustered in March, 1862 and the McLain Rifles were Company B.
William Wier eventually rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in this unit. He was gravely wounded at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 22, 1864. He returned to Enterprise to recuperate. His final assignment after recovery during the war was as commander of a short-lived unit that Rowland Dunbar's Military History of MS, page 144 called the First Confederate Veterans. That unit was a combination of different troops pulled together in a unit that Col. Wier called the 2nd Corinthians.
After the war, Col. Wier was elected and served two terms as Chancery Clerk of Clarke County, Mississippi. They moved to Anniston in 1888.
His Civil War uniform was on display in a glass case at "Beauvoir," the Jefferson Davis memorial at Biloxi, Mississippi, which was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Beauvoir was saved and restored, but Col. Wier's uniform was lost.
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