William D. Wall

An 18 year old planter, he enlisted on 21 April 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

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

He was home on furlough by November 1862 and to about March 1863. He was detailed as druggist and wardmaster to a CS Army hospital in Charlottesville, VA between 20 May 1863 and 7 April 1864, by then possibly appointed or serving as a Hospital Steward. He requested a transfer to Richmond in September 1863 so that he could attend lectured as the Medical College, but was denied.

He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital by May 1864, a nurse there in June, and was retired to the Invalid Corps on 8 September 1864 due to his Sharpsburg wound. He was detailed as a druggist a Richmond Hospital by February 1865 and again retired for disability there on 14 March 1865. He was paroled at Woodville, MS on 18 April 1865.

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

c. 1843; Wilkinson County, MS