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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel L. Norwood

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried 19 year old student from Dayton, AL when he enlisted as Private on 25 April 1861 in Company D, 4th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

Present in action at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

Severely wounded in the left elbow in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and applied for retirement. He was in the Receiving and Wayside Hospital, Richmond, VA in July 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from the State of Alabama1.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

Notes

1   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>, Source page: various  [AotW citation 15632]