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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Betts

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at West Point, MS as a Private in Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 29 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 24 October 1862, but never returned to duty, being marked as absent without leave since 18 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi.

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 28958]

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