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(c. 1843 - 1865)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and younger siblings on the family farm in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a patient in a Richmond, VA Hospital to April 1863, detailed for duty there to 11 May 1863, then sent to Danville, VA. He was on detached service to at least June 1864. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout MD. He was sent to the post hospital on 27 January and died there of chronic diarrhea on 20 February 1865.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William H. Turnipseed. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1843 in SC
Death
02/20/1865; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD
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 29681]