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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on their small farm at Albemarle in Stanly County, NC. He enlisted there on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 28th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Shepherdstown, VA (now WV) on 30 September 1862.
His father Moses filed a claim for his final pay in December 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Roster,1 which has his wounding on 16 September, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His cousin Franklin Alexander Ridenhour (1827-1911) was also in Company D with William, and may have been in Maryland in Septemebr 1862. He was paroled in October 1862 in Leesburg, VA - his place and date of capture not found.
Birth
c. 1842; Stanly County, NC
Death
09/30/1862; Shepherdstown, VA
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 19360]
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 34376]