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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William L. Fowler

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Cherokee County, he enlisted in August and mustered as Private, Company D, 28th Georgia Infantry on 3 September 1861. He was elected and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 9 June 1862 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 10 (or 19) July.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850.

Birth

c. 1836 in SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19534]

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 26560]

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