William McKendree Byrd, Jr.

A 21 year old student, just graduating from the University of Virginia, he enlisted in Company A, 8th Alabama Infantry on 10 May 1861 and was appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment, date not given. He was present at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Fraziers Farm, and 2nd Manassas in 1862.

Present at Sharpsburg.

Promoted and transferred (probably as Captain) to the Confederate States Army in October 1862.

He was a lawyer in Selma, a farmer near Birmingham, and an attorney at the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. He worked on land reclamation in Alabama, and was blind in his later years.

Basic information from State of Alabama1. Details from a bio sketch of his son in Cruikshank's A History of Birmingham and Its Environs (Vol. 2, 1900). His father (1817-1874) was an attorney, judge, and Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court 1863-67.

03/25/1839; Oxford, MS