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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Washington Wade

(1834 - c. 1862)

Home State: Arkansas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Arkansas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26, he enlisted as a Private in Company C of 3rd Arkansas Infantry and mustered at Monticello, Arkansas on 10 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 27 September 1862 but died of wounds, date not stated.

References & notes

Basic information from Howerton1 and his Compiled Military Service Records,2 online from fold3. Details from family genealogists, who have his birth date variously as 2, 21 and 31 October 1834. His memorial in Friendship Cemetery, Cushing, TX is on Findagrave; it has his birth on 21 October 1834.

Birth

10/21/1834; Jones County, MS

Death

c. 1862

Notes

1 Howerton, Bryan R., Roster of the Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA, Published 1998, <http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/3rd-his.html>, Source page: /civilwar/3rdcoc.html [AotW citation 13833]

2 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 29721]

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