His second wife, applied for his pension and recieved it. The story of his wound comes from his daughter who reported it to be from Prairie Grove. His first wife died in 1865 and was buried in a small cemetery North of Big Rock Arkansas called Cow Creek Cemetery. I find it interesting that they had no weapons. William was continually grumbling, according to the pension statement(US) that he didn't want to fight for secession. I have thought to myself that half of his problem was being infantry. He was concripted into Cavalry dismounted into Infantry/Artillery. When he enlisted into the Union, he went with the 4th Indian Home Guard. They were disbanded because of lack of troops to fill that regiment and wound up in another Infantry of the 1Arkansas Infantry,US Volunteers. The good lord intended for him to walk his way through the War for Southern Independence.