William Henry Parsons (April 23, 1826 – October 3, 1907) was an American newspaper editor and legislator who served as a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War.
When the Civil War began, he received a commission as a colonel from Governor Edward Clark.
After the war, he left Texas to investigate the possibility of establishing a Confederate colony in British Honduras.
In 1871, President Grant appointed him a centennial commissioner, and he moved to New York.
In 1907, he died at the home of his son in Chicago and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.