>X-POP3-Rcpt: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:27:20 -0700 >X-From_: [email protected] Sun Jun 25 12:27:19 2000 >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Old-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:11:30 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Daniel Hubbard Willis, Jr. >X-Envelope-To: LARAPIDE-L > >www.randywillis.org > >Seeking information on: > >Daniel Hubbard Willis, Jr. >Born April 2, 1839 - Died May 22, 1900 >Married Julia Ann Graham January 10, 1867 >Forest Hill, Rapides Parish, La. > >He enlisted, September 29, 1861, at Camp Moore, La. in the Confederate Army. >Pvt. 5th. Co. Battn. Washington Arty. La. (order of Gen. Gober, Gen. Adams) >Retd. to (March 16, 1864, order of Maj. Gen. Breckenridge) Capt. Raxdale's >Co. E, 16th. La. Regiment, Gibson's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. Promoted to >2nd Sergt. (order of Col. Lindsay) March 5, 1865. Was a prisoner of War. >Daniel was paroled at Meridian, Mississippi on May 14, 1865. Andrew B. >Booth, Records of Louisiana Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, >(New Orleans, La. 1920) Vol. I: 1115. > >Excerpts from Daniel H. Willis, Jr.'s obituary: Alexandria Town Talk, 23 >June 1900: "He participated in all the hard battles of that army and for >bravery, soldierly bearing, discipline and devotion to duty, he was >unexcelled in his entire Brigade. He was made Orderly Sergeant of his >Company at an early period of the war. It has always been said by his >surviving comrades that when any particularly dangerous service was >required, such as scouting parties to ascertain the position and movements >of the enemy, he was always selected for the place,and never hesitated to >go, let the danger be what it may. > >He was for a long time connected with the famous Washington Artillery, and >at the battle of Chicamauga so many horses of the battery to which he was >attached were killed that they had to pull the guns off the field by hand to >keep them from falling in the hands of the enemy. > >He was paroled at Meridian, Miss., in May, 1865, and brought home with him a >copy of General Gibson's farewell address to his soldiers and of him it can >be truly said that through the remaining years of his life he followed the >advice then given by his beloved commander. > >His love for the Southern cause, and for the men who wore the gray, was not >dimmed by years, but he lived and died firmly convinced of the justice of >the cause for which the South poured out so much of her best blood and >treasure...Before death he expressed a wish that he might see his children >who were at home, especially Randall L., his baby boy, whom he had named in >honor of his beloved Brigadier General, Randall Lee Gibson. He also >requested that his Confederate badge be pinned on his breast and buried with >him." > >Note: Gibson later helped establish Tulane University and was elected to the >U.S. Senate in 1883. I was named after my grandfather Randall Lee Willis who >was named after Randall Lee Gibson at his birth in 1886. Current, ed., >Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (also see Army of Tennessee Louisiana >Division The Association and Tumulus by Jerry Johnson Wier, The Center for >Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999).