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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William W. Ross

(c. 1830 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at West Point, MS as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was left behind sick at Frederick, MD and captured in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick to at least 18 September 1862 then a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October and declared exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was with his Company into February 1863, but then absent again, sick. He died of typhoid fever in the CS General Hospital in Lynchburg, VA on 9 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1830; Cabarrus County, NC

Death

04/09/1863; Lynchburg, VA; burial in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, 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 29025]

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