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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William R. Bowling

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 11 July 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863 and for the third time, by a gunshot on 23 June 1864, place not given. He was in Richmond, VA hospitals to at least 23 September. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William R. Boling. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1833

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 29691]

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