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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Allen

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 3 April 1862 in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was injured in a railroad accident, his left wrist cut and tendons severed, on 8 March 1864, place not given. He was in hospitals in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Farmville, VA to 17 June then furloughed for 40 days to Zebulon, GA. He was surrendered and paroled with his Company at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1891]

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 26919]

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