Pylant Geneology

William Hoggard was an ordained Campbellite preacher. He was also an accomplished carpenter, wheelwright and cooper. He built large freight wagons for the army. He made spinning wheels, looms, chairs, barrels, casks, tubs, churns, buckets, piggins ( 1 gal.) - had one long stave for a hand hold, and cedar water buckets with copper bands.

OLD NORTHWEST TEXAS - Historical, Statistical, Biographical - Vol I-B, Navarro County, 1846-1860: [UND:]William Hoggard[:UND] born ca 1825 Kentucky; came to Texas by 1 Jul 1845, is on Barksdale's Peters Colony roster; soon moved to present Navarro County; is on Navarro County Tax Rolls 1848-1850. He married Navarro County 20 Sep 1848 Perlina? Shults (Schults/Shoults). By 1860 living Parker County, Newburg PO; had 4 more children, sons J. and W., and daughters M. and M. Family not found 1870.
William Hoggard's 3rd class 640-acre Mercer Colony certificate was patented 9 Mar 1852 by Peter C. Ragsdale; land is NE of Corsicana.

Daughter Mary Altman (age 20, born Texas) and her daughter Rosa Altman (age 3, born Texas) living in household in 1880. Also granddaughter Mary R. Hoggard (age 7, born Texas).

"List of Indigent persons belonging to Parker County, who are now in service, or have died in the service of the State of Texas, or of the Confederate States, having indigent dependents in said County" Dated 11 Feb 1864. Wm. Hoggard Five dependents

"A list of indigent dependents upon Texas Soldiers, in Parker County, Texas - made out February 16th 1865. Paulina Hoggard Number in family: five. An act approved December 15th, 1863 provided for the support of soldiers' families.

William served as a private in Company E, 10th Texas Infantry, CSA as did his brother, James "Jim" Hoggard. Discharged in Arkansas due to "disability".

Excerpt from THE 10TH TEXAS INFANTRY IN THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 (compiled by Ron G. McCoy): In the summer of 1861, Allison Nelson traveled through several Texas counties (Freestone, Grimes, Harris, Limestone, McLennan, Parker, San Augustine, Smith, Washington) and organized the 10th Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment and served as its first colonel. The following men were officers in Nelson's 10th Texas Infantry: Colonel Allison Nelson Lieutenant Colonel Roger Q. Mills Major Robert B. Young Major Seymour C. Brasher Major John R. Kennard The 10th Texas Infantry served in Arkansas and Texas. On January 11, 1863 most of the regiment were captured and many men killed in a battle at Fort Hindman - Arkansas Post. Several other Texas regiments also participated in the fight which took place on the Arkansas River. The attack on Fort Hindman was led by General McClernand and included a superior force of union soldiers and naval gun-boats. On January 8th, 1863, under the command of General McClernand, two corps of Union troops joined a naval convoy of Admiral Porter's gun-boats and proceeded up the river to attack Fort Hindman, which was commonly known as Arkansas Post. The fort was located on the north bank of the Arkansas River, fifty miles from its mouth, and a little more than twice that distance below Little Rock. Here a settlement had been made by the French in 1685. The fort was situated on the first high ground to be found in ascending the Arkansas; it had a parapet eighteen feet across, with a ditch of twenty feet wide by eight deep, strong casements, and a cordon of rifle-pits. The commander of Fort Hindman was General T. J. Churchill, who had under him a garrison of approximately 5000 Confederate soldiers. The 10th Texas Infantry was only one of several Texas units assigned to duty at Fort Hindman - Arkansas Post. The fort was mounted with eight guns, and its capture was an affair of no great difficullty. But General Churchill had orders from Lieutenant General Holmes, the Confederate commander in Arkansas, "...to hold on till help arrived, or till all were dead." The Union naval expedition entered White River, and , after ascending it for fifteen miles, through a cut-off, moved into the Arkansas River on January 9th. By noon of the next day, the Union troops were all debarked three miles below the fort. The story of the capture is soon told. The gun-boats, even while the troops were landing, had shelled the Confederate sharp-shooters out of their rifle-pits which were located along the levee. The gun-boats then aimed their bombardment directly upon the fort. As the bombardment continued, Union soldiers moved up around the fort, across bayous and swamps, and then during the night of January 10th, slept on their weapons, in readiness for the final assault of the next day. On January 11th, shortly after 12 noon, the gun-boats opened up a fierce bombardment of Fort Hindman. As the bombardment continued, several Union brigades charged up the embankment to within musket-range of the Confederate positions and found partial shelter in the ravines around the fort. During this advance, General Hovey was wounded and General Thayer had his horse shot out from under him. The assault continued and General A. J. Smith pressed back the Confederate right until, as he sent word to McClernand, he could "... almost shake hands with the enemy." The shelling continued for nearly three hours, until the eight cannons defending the fort were wrecked and silenced. As soon as the guns of the fort silenced, McClernand ordered a general assault. General Burbridge led the Eighty-third Ohio and Sixteenth Indiana into the entrenchments along the east side of the fort. General Sherman's and General Steele's regiments were on the point of entering entrenchments on the north and west, when a white flag appeared on the ramparts, the Confederates had surrendered. General McClernand had captured Fort Hindman - Arkansas Post, along with 5000 Confederate troops, 17 cannons and 3000 small arms. The captured Confederate soldiers were sent north to Camp Douglas on the outskirts of Chicago to become prisoners of war. Camp Douglas was situated on a portion of land belonging to the estate of Stephen Douglas, the Senator from Illinois who is remembered for his debates with Abraham Lincoln. (The original Douglas estate covered more than 1000 acres, with a portion of it bounded by Lake Michigan, on the southern edge of the city. Today, a tiny state park which contains Senator Douglas' tomb marks the last remaining section of the original estate and POW camp. The POW camp was located at what is now an area bounded by 35th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue near Lake Michigan on Chicago's predominantly Black south side.) The prisoners arrived at Camp Douglas in the heart of a bone numbing Chicago winter. As it was in most POW camps in the Civil War, conditions at Camp Douglas were extremely harsh. Winters along the edge of Lake Michigan are always wet and brutally cold. The grounds at Camp Douglas were a continual quagmire of mud, water and snow. The absence of proper drainage in the camp generated severe health problems and thousands of men died from influenza and other diseases while imprisoned there, just a short distance from Chicago. Hundreds of Texas soldiers were among the throngs who perished at Camp Douglas. All of them are buried in Oakwood Cemetery which is located at 67th Street and Cottage Grove, relatively close to the original site of the POW camp. (Mormon Church archives indicate that hundreds of Texas soldiers are buried at Oakwood Cemetery.) In the spring of 1863, most of the captured Confederate soldiers were paroled in a prisoner exchange with Yankee POW's. After the exchange, the Texas soldiers were consolidated with the 5th and 6th Texas infantry regiments and served in Deshler's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Army of Tennessee. Eventually, the Texas regiments were consolidated again into Grandbury's Consolidated Brigade.

William filed a claim in 1896 for land in the Choctaw Nation, based on Sarah having been a Choctaw. The family tree that was filed with the U. S. Commission investigating these claims (called the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, or the Dawes Commission for short), says that Sarah was born Sarah Fletcher. Her father was Captain James Fletcher, who was 3/4 Choctaw, and her mother Nancy, who was a full-blood. William's claim was rejected by the Dawes Commission.