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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William R. Hairston

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer living with his wife, children, and widower father John next door to several Welch in-laws at Montgomery, AL. He was probably farming at Wetumpka in Elmore County, AL by 26 July 1861 when he enlisted in Montgomery and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant on 20 January 1862 and appointed First Sergeant on 20 July.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widow filed for his final pay in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Faith Elizabeth Welch (1831-; also seen as Tabitha and Martha) in December 1852 and they a son and 3 daughters by 1861.

Birth

c. 1833 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=78909 [AotW citation 25466]

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 32553]

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