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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William Hasel Quince

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 24, from New Hanover County, he enrolled there and was commissioned on 16 May 1861 as 2nd Lieutenant of Company G, 3rd North Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 21 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshots to the chest and head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died later the same day.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1

More on the Web

A daguerreotype of him and some wartime letters are among the Quince and Watters Family Papers at the University of North Carolina [finding aid].

Birth

c. 1837

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-  [AotW citation 25902]