William Knight

(? - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted in Company F on 16 May 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in the leg and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The remainder of the War:
He was held at Fort McHenry, MD until paroled and transferred on 22 October to Aiken’s Landing, VA and exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He died in Perquimans County on 1 January 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Wilson1. Some detail from the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. Service data from the Roster2: Company F transcribed and posted on NCGenWeb by Robert E. Stokley.

Death Date: 01/01/1863 Death Place: Perquimans County, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9923]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 18 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 9957]

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