Obituary for William P. Jeanes, McLennan, Texas

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Obituary from CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XVIII, No. 10, August 1910

Obituary:  WILLIAM P. JEANES

With the death of William P. Jeans, McGregor, Tex, lost one of her most esteemed 
citizens and his wife and his sons who survive him a loving companion and 
father.

Mr Jeanes was born November 23, 1846, at Pinkneysville, Ala., and at the age of 
seventeen years responded to his country's call.  He enlisted as a recruit in 
Company C, 10th Confederate cavalry, Anderson's Brigade, Wheeeler's Corps of the 
Tennessee Army.  His first engagement was in the battle of Chickamauga, 
September 19 and 20, 1863.  The next maneuvers of the army were in the spring of 
1864, when the Georgia campaign was started and the fighting at Tunnel Hill and 
Dalton was begun.  In the battle of Resaca he was slightly wounded in the left 
hand.  He was then in the battle of New Hope church and Pickett's Mills, where 
the Federal wagon train was captured above Big Shanty.

He engaged in the battles about Kennesaw Mountain and those around Atlanta, and 
in all the movements from that on through Georgia and in the Savvanah campaign.  
His next engagement was in the battle of Aiken, S.C., and from there to 
Columbia, S.C., and on with all the movements of the army to Jonesboro, N.C., 
where the surrender was made.  Being cut off from his command before reaching 
Columbia, he was among the enemy, but made his escape and reached Columbia in
the evening of the same day.

Not only in battle did Mr. Jeanes prove a valiant soldier, but in all the walks 
of life.

"Soon his comrades will be coming
For their last joyous reunion;
No more battles, no more roaming--
Just with God in sweet communion."

>From a sketch by Mrs. T.E. Streight, of McGregor, Tex.