William Heby Busard Dorsey
Name: William Heby Busard Dorsey
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 1st MD Cav.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Mt. Airy, Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 05/21/1861
Company: A
Rank at End of Service: 1st Lieutenant
Notes:
Enlisted at Harpers Ferry, VA as a Private; Promoted to Sergeant on 9/1/1861; Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 4/27/1862; Discharged from Co. A to Co. D; Promoted in 1st MD Battalion Cavalry, Co. D to 1st Lieutenant; Died on 12/4/1879
Source(s):
Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A. (Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing ([an imprint of Howell Press, Inc.], 1999), 222; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 294; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 133; American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
