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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Hopkins

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker in Orange County, NC. He enlisted in Hillsborough, NC on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His grandmother Ellen (or Ellin) Woods, his nearest living kin, filed for his final pay in February 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841; Orange County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 9963]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10028]

3 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 31480]

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