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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wiliam F. Johnson

(c. 1845 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 16 year old farmer, enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a Charlottesville, VA hospital by 23 September, but left the hospital on an "irregular furlough" given by the Brigade Surgeon on the 26th, and returned to his Company on 18 December 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left knee on 29 April 1863 near Fredericksburg, VA, and was in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA, but returned to duty on 22 May. He died at Hagerstown, MD on 5 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2

Birth

c. 1845; Henry County, GA

Death

07/05/1863; Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28505]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28506]

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