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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William W. C. Meredith

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, he enlisted on 18 August 1861 at Fairfax Station, VA as a Private in Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He signed a Federal parole on 27 September 1862 near Sharpsburg, with no later military record. He never returned to his unit, and was dropped from the Company Roll in August 1863 as an apparent deserter.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William W. C. Merrideth. He was listed as missing at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1838

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 29757]

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