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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Henry Ward

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old on his parent's farm at West Point in Troup County, GA; 21 year old John Wesley Hodnett lived next door. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 1 September 1862 in La Grange, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough to 19 March 1863, and frequently in Virginia hospitals through the rest of 1863. He was again on furlough, due to gastroenteritis of 3 months duration, from February to 1 April 1864. He was killed, probably at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, on 12 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as M. Ward, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother Enos Wesley Ward, Jr (b 1842) was also in Company K; he died of disease in Staunton, VA on

Birth

c. 1840; Greene County, GA

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA

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 28614]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28615]

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