William Pearson

In 1860 he was a married 51 year old farmer in Centre, Cherokee County, AL. He enlisted at Selma, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

Originally thought to have been killed, his arm was amputated and he was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore from Frederick, MD on 27 October and on to Fortress Monroe the same day. He was paroled and arrived at Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, date not given. He was admitted to the CS hospital at Howard's Grove in Richmond, VA on 4 November and was discharged for disability there on 21 November 1862.

By 1870 he was a retail grocer at Attala in Etowah County, AL but in 1880, then 70 years old, he was farming at Gadsen, AL with son William and a paid farmhand.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862, as killed at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Redding (1808-1889) and they had at least 6 children by 1838.

10/30/1809 in NC

09/07/1888; in AL; burial in Tillison Cemetery, Gadsden, AL