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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William W. Childs

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old student living on his parent's farm at Sandy Ridge in Henry County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, VA by 23 September and went home on an "irregular furlough from [the] Brigade Surgeon." He was paid in Atlanta on 4 November 1862 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Mary Ann Evans (1832-1900) in February 1862 in Henry County.

His brother Henry was also in Company C and was also wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1845; Henry County, GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28416]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28417]

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