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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William C. Wolfe

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he mustered as Private in Company K, 19th Virginia Infantry on 20 May 1861 at Hillsboro, VA.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by seven gunshots and captured at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD but died there, date not given.

References & notes

His service from Jordan1 via the Historical Data Systems database. The Memorial History of the John Bowie Strange Camp, United Confederate Veterans (1920) says he was killed outright at "Boonsboro". Wound, hospital, and death details from the Patient List,2 which also has him as George Wolfe.

Birth

c. 1833

Death

1862; Frederick, MD

Notes

1 Jordan, Jr., Ervin I., and H. A. Thomas, Jr., 19th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987, roster [AotW citation 24148]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #0 [AotW citation 24149]

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