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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Cole

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Morganton on 22 April 1861 as a Private in Company E, 2nd Georgia Infantry. He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital from 8 July 1862 to 2 August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was back in a Richmond hospital by 28 October and a patient to at least December 1862. He was with his Company to at least February 1865, when he was last paid, and was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg details from a letter in the Augusta, GA Weekly Constitutionalist of 3 December 1862, thanks to Laura Elliott.

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 30850]

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