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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William A. Pollard

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 22 January 1862 in Columbia, SC and mustered as a Private in Company B, 22nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed for 30 days on 10 October 1862, which was extended in November and again in December 1862. He was listed as a deserter as of 29 August 1863 and "at home," but returned by December 1863. He was with his company to 25 February 1865, then absent without leave with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

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 [AotW citation 34256]

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 34257]

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