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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Britt

(c. 1829 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 33, from Montgomery County, he mustered as Private, Company G, 14th North Carolina Infantry on 16 July 1862 in Wake County.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 29 September 1862, place not given. His widow filed for his final pay in April 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1829

Death

09/29/1862

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 19220]

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 30247]