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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William H. Vaden

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old tobacconist from Halifax County, he enlisted on on 29 April 1861 in Yanceyville, NC and mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th North Carolina Infantry on 18 May in Raleigh. He was promoted to Corporal on 26 April 1862. He was wounded in June 1862, place not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the groin and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Boonsboro, MD on 3 October and held at Fort McHenry, MD until about 18 October 1862, when he was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 24 October and furloughed on 4 November. He was formally exchanged on 1 November, but died of wounds on 25 November 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1838; Halifax County, NC

Death

11/25/1862

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19176]

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 33145]

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