Individual Details

Served in the Louisiana Confederate Army. Was killed in action.
[This boy does not appear in the 1850 Bienville Parish LA Census with this family - he would have been 9 years old and should have been present.] He was with his mother and his older brother Walker in the 1860 Census in Smith Co TX and he is said to have been included in his father's estate settlement.

Civil War Service Records on Ancestry.com:
Perry Higginbotham, Private Company: C, Unit: 6 Louisiana Infantry

Louisiana Confederate Soldiers; Ancestry.com
Higginbotham, Perry (also Higginbotham, T.),Pvt. Co. C, 6th La. Inf. En. June 4, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Rolls from July, 1861, to June, 1862, Present. Roll for July and Aug., 1862, Wounded July 1 and died July 8. Record copied from Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., by the War Dept., Washington, D. C., May, 1903, born Texas, occupation farmer, Res. St. Landry, La., single.

Birth	Abt 1841	Kemper County, Mississippi
Death	8 Jul 1862

Father	WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM (1788 - 1852)
Mother	Mary N. Bradford (1796 - )
Sibling	Walker H. Higginbotham (1833 - 1863)
Sibling	Mary Jane Higginbotham (1835 - )
Sibling	Adeline Higginbotham (1837 - )