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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

W. C. Denman

(? - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 4th Corporal to date from 30 May 1862 and 2nd Corporal by the end of August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Corporal on 1 October 1862, 5th Sergeant in February 1863, 4th Sergeant in April. He was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Pvt. W.C. Deneran.

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, 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 29584]

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