[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Reeves

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 35 year old farmer in Lamar, he enlisted on 14 February 1862 at Yorktown, VA and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 a claim for his final pay in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, also as William Benjamin Reeves, and the US Census of 1850. He's seen in some records as William Reaves.

He married Artemisia Caroline Abbott (1834-1929) in 1855 and they had 2 sons.

His brothers Archibald (1816-1881, later 1st AL Cavalry), Thompson, Burgess, Loftin (1836-1922), and James (1845-1864), and Archibalds's sons, his nephews, William B. and Archibald (1844-) were all also in Company K.

Birth

c. 1827 in GA

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=168445 [AotW citation 25473]

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 32875]

« Search for another Person