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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Price

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 19 year old farmer, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 1 April 1862.

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 sent off sick on 30 January 1863 and died of pleuritis (pleurisy) in CS Army General Hospital #1 in Lynchburg, VA on 4 February 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1843; Lauderdale County, MS

Death

02/04/1863; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1933]

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 26943]

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