Confederate Biography :  Wm. C. DAY, Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Susie McFarland Lemin slemin@yahoo.com
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 87

Wm. C. Day, born in Anderson, South Carolina, July 20th, 1833, removed 
to Mississippi and with his fathers' family to Texas in 1854.  
Volunteered in Co. K. 3rd Texas Cavalry in May 1861 and made a gallant 
soldier until the end of the war in 1865.  He belonged to Ross' Texas 
Brigade and served most of the four years in the army of Tennessee.  
He was in the battles of Oak Hill, Elk Horn Tavern, Inka, Cornith, 
Jackson, Middleburg, Thompson's Station, Franklin and many other
skirmishes and fights of less note.  He has been since the war 
County Treasurer of Smith county and filled the same with promptness 
and satisfactorily to the people.  In March 1871 he married Miss H. A. 
Lee, a daughter of Dr. Lee a efficiency physician of his county.  His 
father and mother Hezakiah and Elizabeth Day, were early settlers in 
Eastern Texas.  Mr. Day's postoffice address is Tyler, Texas.