William Marion McMath

A 19 year old student at the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa (since 1859), he enlisted as Private in Company B, 10th Alabama Infantry on 4 June 1861 at Montevallo, AL. He was captured in action near Richmond VA on 30 June 1862. He was in prison at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, and Fort Delaware in July. He was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA on 5 August 1862.

Elected 2nd Lieutenant 9 August 1864. Surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865. Was present at Yorktown (April 1862), Seven Pines (May), Battle before Richmond (June), 2nd Manassas (August), Harpers Ferry (September), Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg (December), Chancellorsville (Mayy 1863), Salem Church (May), Gettysburg (July), Bristow Station (October), Mine Run (November), Wilderness (May 1864), Spottsylvania (May), Hanover Junction (May), Atleys Station (June), Turkey Ridge (June), the seige of Petersburg & Richmond (June), Cavalry fight (June), Beans Station (July), the Crater (July), Deep Bottom (August).

He was a merchant living in El Paso, Arkansas in 1901.

Basic information from the Alabama Civil War Service Database.1 Further details from his compiled service records at the National Archives and family genealogists. More from A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901 (Tuscaloosa: 1901). His father James Hillman McMath (1819-1862) was killed in action while Captain, Co. G, 11th Alabama Infantry at Frazier's Field, near Richmond, VA on 30 June 1862.

03/04/1842; Tuscaloosa, AL