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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Turner

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted at Westville, MS on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm and head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was afterward absent, wounded, never returning to his Company, and died of typhoid fever at Mobile, AL on 9 September 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

09/09/1863; Mobile, AL; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, AL

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 29600]

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