William L. Rowe

In 1850 he was a 30 year old tailor in Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC. He enlisted there on 17 January 1862 as a Private in Company F, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured, and died the same day at the Federal Franklin's Corps field hospital on the Michael Miller farm near the battlefield.

Service information from the Roster.1 Death and hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as Wm. L. Roe. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

He married Mary E Smith (1822-) in July 1841 and they had 4 daughters.

c. 1820 in NC

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD