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(c. 1834 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 26 year old farmer in Rehoboth, Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted at Pine Apple, AL as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry on 28 April 1862. He transferred to Company I on 1 September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Lucy Ann filed for his final pay of $75.33 in February 1863.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as William I Hawthorne. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as W.J. Houston. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married the widow Lucy Ann Womack Andrews (1831-1884) in June 1856 and they had 2 or 3 children (she also had two from her previous marriage).
Birth
c. 1834 in AL
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=86172 [AotW citation 25738]
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 31701]