William Alexander Colville

(1833 - 1914)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Harnett County, he enlisted in May 1861 in Company F of the 15th NC Infantry.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action on South Mountain at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Moore1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through Moore and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. Life dates from genealogies online.

Place of Birth: Averasboro, NC
Death Date: 02/22/1914 Death Place: Averasboro, NC Burial Place: Averasboro Cemetery, Erwin, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 554 - [AotW citation 7530]

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