Confederate Biography :  W. J. SINGLETARY, Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 93

Wm. J. Singletary, a native of South Carolina, enlisted in Co. H. 
Eighth South Carolina regiment, and later commanded the company.  After 
the battle of Bull Run, on account of ill health, he was forced to 
resign, but on recovery joined an artillery company commanded by Capt. 
Thomas E. Gregg engaged in the defense of the forts on the islands 
around Charleston.  While so engaged, he was detached by Maj. W. H. 
Echols of the engineering department to superintend the collection and
distribution of laborers employed in keeping in repair Battery Gregg 
and Fort Sumter, and so continued until the evacuation of the city and 
forts.  He afterward became a member of a cavalry company commanded by 
Capt. S. A. Durham, which was engaged in the defense of Sumter county, 
S. C., at the time of Lee's surrender. He removed to Texas in 1867.  
Capt. Singletary was married to Miss Fannie G. Baldwin, of Enterprise, 
Miss., in 1881 and resided and practiced law at Pittsburg, Texas, until 
his removal to Tyler in 1906.