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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Shearer

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 40 year old clerk in Selma, AL, he enlisted there as Private, Company G, 44th Alabama Infantry on 18 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

He married Mary Elizabeth Nance (b. 1822) in October 1843 and they had 9 children by 1858.

Birth

c. 1821; Selma, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=181651 [AotW citation 25736]

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