William L. Redden

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his parents and siblings on the family place at Vicksburg in Warren County, MS. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 13 October then furloughed home on 20 October. He was on wounded furlough to 18 April 1863, but afterward listed as absent without leave. By October 1864 he was listed as a deserter from April 1863. He was paroled at Jackson, MS on 19 May 1865.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Dry Grove in Hinds County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William L. Redding. His wounding from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as W.L. Radder. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Cora Lillie Pope (1848-1927) and they had 6 children between 1865 and 1878.

01/03/1840; Warren County, MS

06/27/1879; Hinds County, MS; burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, MS