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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Seth Williams

(c. 1827 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, from Martin County, he enlisted as Private, Company H, First North Carolina Infantry on 24 June 1861 in Williamston.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was back with his Company by November 1862 but was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA with phthisis (tuberculosis or lung disease) on 24 March 1863 and died there on 1 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Emaline (?, b. 1838) and they had 5 children between 1851 and 1860.

Birth

c. 1827; Martin County, NC

Death

04/01/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood 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 26345]