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Confederate (CSV)

Private

WIlliam A. Matthews

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, he enlisted as Private in Company E, 8th South Carolina Infantry, date not given. He was wounded at 2nd Manassas in August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls.1

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/13/1862; Maryland Heights, MD

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company E, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24280]

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