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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William A. Jackson

(c. 1844 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, from Guilford County, he was conscripted as Private, Company H, First North Carolina Infantry on 8 July 1862 in Greensboro.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent, wounded and sick through December 1863. He returned to camp on 16 January 1864 but was sent to the Winder Division hospital in Richmond, VA on 12 May and died there of typhoid fever on 28 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3, also as William J. Jackson and W.A. Jackson. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

05/28/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 26308]

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