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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Holliday

(? - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 21 year old in Livingston Parish, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 7th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Moore, LA on 7 June 1861. He was wounded by a gunshot to his head at Port Republic, VA on 9 June 1862 and returned to duty in August.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Harpers Ferry on 14-15 September and killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3.

Birth

Date not known in IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD