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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Jefferson Claybrook

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living on the Oliver K Lewis place at Mt. Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 2 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the shoulder at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 2 October and furloughed for 60 days on 11 October 1862. He received pay at Richmond, VA on 20 January 1863 but died of disease - brain fever - near Fredericksburg, VA later in 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Jeff and Jefferson W Claybrooks, and the Archives,2 which has his death on 7 January 1863. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

1863; Fredericksburg, VA

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 32405]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32406]

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