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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Addison Rucker

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the Orangeburg District, he was conscripted and enlisted at Lexington as a Private in Company H, Third South Carolina Infantry on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reported "lost in Maryland" in September 1862 and was probably mortally wounded there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to CSA General Hospital #12 in Richmond, VA about 31 October 1862 and died there of wounds and/or typhoid pneumonia on 10 December 1862. His Captain still had him as missing as late as June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Salley1,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 also as Allison Rucker and Addison Rucker, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Billion Graves.

Death

12/10/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., editor, Tentative Roster of the Third Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Provisional Army, Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1908, pp. 102 - 109 [AotW citation 12895]

2 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930, Vol. 2, pg. 511 [AotW citation 12925]

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 27778]

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