Served the Confederacy
57th GA Infantry, Co F (Private)
Fryar, Zachariah L. -- Private - May 3, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 7, 1863. Exchanged in 1863. Absent without leave April 1864.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict.
The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war.
I believe that Zachariah Lewis Fryer married twice. He was much older than Bertha at the time of marriage. He is in the 1880 census for Marshall, Harrison Co TX with a wife Gertie L. Fryer and children John, James, Henry and Jefferson Fryer. Both parents and all children born in GA (misenumerated that year as surname Fry). I found a death notice from an old newspaper stating death of his son John Fryer in Marshall, Harrison Co TX. I could not find the burials for this first family. The death notice:
Tri-Weekly Herald
Marshall, Texas
Saturday July 5, 1884
Died
In this city, on July 1, 1884, John W. Fryer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Fryer, aged 23
Civil War Records for Zachariah Fryer indicate he stated he was age 25 in 1862, and this matches closely with census which would indicate he was born around 1837, not 1830 as the Kaufman Co records for burial indicated.
Zachariah L Fryer
event: Military
year: 1862
age: 25
military unit (film note):57th Infantry
nara publication title:Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
nara publication number: M266
nara roll number: 538
The 2nd marriage family is in the 1900 census for Kaufman County,TX. However after the death of her husband, Bertha moved to Van Zandt Co TX by the April 29, 1910 census where she is enumerated as "Mattie Fryer" a widow, living with Annie Fryer age 18, William 'Martin' Fryer age 16, Emmett Fryer age 12. The older children had already left home.
57th GA Infantry, Co F (Private)
Fryar, Zachariah L. -- Private - May 3, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 7, 1863. Exchanged in 1863. Absent without leave April 1864.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict.
The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war.
I believe that Zachariah Lewis Fryer married twice. He was much older than Bertha at the time of marriage. He is in the 1880 census for Marshall, Harrison Co TX with a wife Gertie L. Fryer and children John, James, Henry and Jefferson Fryer. Both parents and all children born in GA (misenumerated that year as surname Fry). I found a death notice from an old newspaper stating death of his son John Fryer in Marshall, Harrison Co TX. I could not find the burials for this first family. The death notice:
Tri-Weekly Herald
Marshall, Texas
Saturday July 5, 1884
Died
In this city, on July 1, 1884, John W. Fryer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Fryer, aged 23
Civil War Records for Zachariah Fryer indicate he stated he was age 25 in 1862, and this matches closely with census which would indicate he was born around 1837, not 1830 as the Kaufman Co records for burial indicated.
Zachariah L Fryer
event: Military
year: 1862
age: 25
military unit (film note):57th Infantry
nara publication title:Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
nara publication number: M266
nara roll number: 538
The 2nd marriage family is in the 1900 census for Kaufman County,TX. However after the death of her husband, Bertha moved to Van Zandt Co TX by the April 29, 1910 census where she is enumerated as "Mattie Fryer" a widow, living with Annie Fryer age 18, William 'Martin' Fryer age 16, Emmett Fryer age 12. The older children had already left home.
Served the Confederacy
57th GA Infantry, Co F (Private)
Fryar, Zachariah L. -- Private - May 3, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 7, 1863. Exchanged in 1863. Absent without leave April 1864.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict.
The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war.
I believe that Zachariah Lewis Fryer married twice. He was much older than Bertha at the time of marriage. He is in the 1880 census for Marshall, Harrison Co TX with a wife Gertie L. Fryer and children John, James, Henry and Jefferson Fryer. Both parents and all children born in GA (misenumerated that year as surname Fry). I found a death notice from an old newspaper stating death of his son John Fryer in Marshall, Harrison Co TX. I could not find the burials for this first family. The death notice:
Tri-Weekly Herald
Marshall, Texas
Saturday July 5, 1884
Died
In this city, on July 1, 1884, John W. Fryer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Fryer, aged 23
Civil War Records for Zachariah Fryer indicate he stated he was age 25 in 1862, and this matches closely with census which would indicate he was born around 1837, not 1830 as the Kaufman Co records for burial indicated.
Zachariah L Fryer
event: Military
year: 1862
age: 25
military unit (film note):57th Infantry
nara publication title:Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
nara publication number: M266
nara roll number: 538
The 2nd marriage family is in the 1900 census for Kaufman County,TX. However after the death of her husband, Bertha moved to Van Zandt Co TX by the April 29, 1910 census where she is enumerated as "Mattie Fryer" a widow, living with Annie Fryer age 18, William 'Martin' Fryer age 16, Emmett Fryer age 12. The older children had already left home.
57th GA Infantry, Co F (Private)
Fryar, Zachariah L. -- Private - May 3, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 7, 1863. Exchanged in 1863. Absent without leave April 1864.
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict.
The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war.
I believe that Zachariah Lewis Fryer married twice. He was much older than Bertha at the time of marriage. He is in the 1880 census for Marshall, Harrison Co TX with a wife Gertie L. Fryer and children John, James, Henry and Jefferson Fryer. Both parents and all children born in GA (misenumerated that year as surname Fry). I found a death notice from an old newspaper stating death of his son John Fryer in Marshall, Harrison Co TX. I could not find the burials for this first family. The death notice:
Tri-Weekly Herald
Marshall, Texas
Saturday July 5, 1884
Died
In this city, on July 1, 1884, John W. Fryer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Fryer, aged 23
Civil War Records for Zachariah Fryer indicate he stated he was age 25 in 1862, and this matches closely with census which would indicate he was born around 1837, not 1830 as the Kaufman Co records for burial indicated.
Zachariah L Fryer
event: Military
year: 1862
age: 25
military unit (film note):57th Infantry
nara publication title:Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
nara publication number: M266
nara roll number: 538
The 2nd marriage family is in the 1900 census for Kaufman County,TX. However after the death of her husband, Bertha moved to Van Zandt Co TX by the April 29, 1910 census where she is enumerated as "Mattie Fryer" a widow, living with Annie Fryer age 18, William 'Martin' Fryer age 16, Emmett Fryer age 12. The older children had already left home.
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