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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Bethel Miles

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his parents and siblings on the family place at Prospect Hill in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted in Yanceyville on 6 June 1861 as a Private in Company H, 6th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the 6th Corps field hospital on the Michael Miller farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds the same day.

References & notes

His basic service from Iobst.1 Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as W.B. Miles. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

1838; Caswell County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, p. 409 [AotW citation 30009]

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