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Uzziah Mason
TX 9th Co. G
died 18 Aug 1862
Gunshot Wound
is buried in an unmarked grave in Oak Hill Cemetery, Vanderburgh County, IN.
He also also referred as
Isaiah Mason and W. Mason
9th (Maxey's) Infantry Regiment [also called 8th Regiment] was organized during
September, 1861. The men were recruited in Galveston and Paris, and Titus, Llano, Collin,
and Lamar counties. It moved east of the Mississippi River and saw action at Shiloh and
Perryville. Later it was assigned to General P. Smith's and Extor's Brigade. It
fought at Murfreesboro, served in Mississippi, then participated in the campaigns of the
Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Nashville. Ordered to Alabama, it ended the war at
Mobile. This regiment lost thirty percent of the 226 engaged at Shiloh and thirty-eight
percent of the 323 at Murfreesboro. Few surrendered in May, 1865. Its commanders were
Colonels Samuel B. Maxey, Wright A. Stanley, and William H. Young; Lieutenant Colonels
William E. Beeson and Miles A. Dillard; and Majors James Burnet, W.M. Harrison, and James
H. McReynolds.
-Chris