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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William D. Ricketts

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Tennessee

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Tennessee Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farm worker in Wilson County, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 7th Tennessee Infantry on about 15 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed by a gunshot through his head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Lindsley,1 who says he was killed outright at Shepherdstown, and William Thomas Venner's The 7th Tennessee Infantry in the Civil War (2013).

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Lindsley, John Berrien, The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate, Nashville: J.M. Lindsley, 1886, pg. 263 [AotW citation 25412]

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