W. B. Rome

Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company D.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was captured in action on 17 September 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Polley 1. Roster has: Recruited, Mar.26, 1862 at Huntsville, Tex.: POW, Antietam (Sept.17, 1862): Paroled, Sept.20, 1862: Detailed as clerk to Regmtl. Adj., Apr. 6, 1864: W., Wilderness (May 6, 1864): Leg amputated.

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 337 [AotW citation 2589]

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