Monday, March 17, 2014

Wiley Marion Hopson - Confederate Service

Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865, complied by Miss Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas

"W.H. Hopson, Athens, Texas - born July 9, 1832, in Mereweather County, GA. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in Mississippi as a private in Frank Kimbrue's Company, Perrin Battalion. We were disbanded at Macon, GA., and attached to the Twenty-fifth Misissippi Cavalry. I was in only one skirmish on Yazoo River. Was paroled with my company at Grenada, Mississippi. 

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