William H. Randle, Orderly Sergeant of Co. "B", Patton's 1st (sixty-day) Mississippi Regt., was a resident of Aberdeen MS. Capt. James W. Higgason's company of Monroe County organized as the "Locke Huston Aids". Randle had earlier been on roll with the "Van Dorn Reserve" of Aberdeen, which later became Co. "I", 11th Mississippi Regt. He received payment for one month and eight days as quartermaster of Patton's Regiment before returning home. Enlisting in Confederate service on May 1, 1862, he served with Co. "A", Inge's Mississippi Cavalry Battn. After being captured near Ripley MS on June 8, 1863, Randle died at Alton (U.S.) Military Prison, Aug. 3, 1863.