Mortally wounded at Antietam, Rebel doctor William Parran is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown, W.Va., which was part of Virginia during the Civil War. |
Close-up of William Parran's gravestone. (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE.) |
The son of a doctor, William Parran was mustered in to the Confederate army as a captain on April 17, 1861. (Photo: Museum of The Confederacy, Richmond, Va.) |
"He was never backward in offering and rendering services whenever and wherever he thought they were needed and would be accepted," a friend wrote about Parran in November 1862. "He lost his valuable life while nobly working at another's battery, to which he had offered his services. He was a tender and affectionate father, and left a fond and devoted wife and a darling little daughter to mourn his untimely death. May the widow's God be her God, and a father to her fatherless!"
Parran's son, William S. Parran II, was born on April 19, 1863. His father lies buried in Shepherdstown, W.Va., in Elmwood Cemetery, where more than 100 other Confederates who were killed or mortally wounded at Antietam are also interred.
"Dr. Parran was ever an affectionate and dutiful son, a devoted husband and parent, a true friend, and an unswerving patriot," a short account of his life published in 1875 noted. "His genial social nature, his frank and manly qualities, made for him, wherever he went, hosts of friends, in whose memories and affections he has a monument to his honor more enduring and more to be coveted than brass or marble."
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