W. J. SEALE/Barrett Family Branches

WILLIAM J. SEALE

William J. Seale was born in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1845, the son of John A. and Margaret Seale. He moved to Mississippi with his parents in about 1850, and then to Texas in about 1855. His family is enumerated in Walker County, Texas in 1860, and he was fifteen and a farmer. They were living next door to John Lindleyand wife Eliza and family.
William J. Seale joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen in 1861 when he was just sixteen.
Later that year, in October 1861, William enrolled in Company G, Captain H. W. Fisher's Company of Mounted Volunteers, 3rd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade. He enlisted in Walker County and gave his age as eighteen.
He took his own horse into the war, a horse of the value of $150.00. His equipment was valued at $30.
William fought with the Seventh Cavalry until September, 1863, when he was discharged by a surgeons Certificate of Disability and was discharged to go home to Danville, Texas.

His discharge certificate is included in his file. It shows that he was furloughed from Morgan's Ferry, Louisiana and that he received his pay to the date of discharge. The certificate gives William's age as nineteen, and his description as follows: five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, hazel eyes.
Meanwhile, William's father had died, leaving an estate and land near Danville in Montgomery County.
William does not seem to be living in Texas in 1870, and it is possible he died from his wounds. Since his discharge certificate was to be given to him but instead is in his file, we can guess that he died before he ever left camp at Morgan's Ferry, Louisiana.
Sources include Roster of the Danville Mounted Riflemen, Texas census records, and Compiled Service Records of William's service in the Seventh Texas Cavalry.
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