William Marion Graham

In 1860 he was a 15 year old student living with his parents and 3 siblings in Kingston, AL. He enlisted as a Private in Company M (later Company G), 6th Alabama Infantry, 1 March 1862 in Autaugaville, AL.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right foot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 26 September and transferred for exchange the next day. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 6 October. He was on furlough to Kingston, AL to at least the end of 1862.

He was captured again at Gettysburg, PA on 5 July 1863, sent from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, PA on 7 July 1863, and on to Fort Delaware. He was home on furlough from 6 August to 20 September and again from 5 November to 4 December 1863. He was captured for the third time at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 13 June 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Elmore County, AL.

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Frances Thompson (1844-1934) in February 1864 and they had 10 children.

08/07/1845; Cherokee County, AL

07/10/1908; Eclectic, AL; burial in Harmony Cemetery, Coosa County, AL