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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Henry Campbell

(1843 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A tailor's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 3 younger siblings, and his maternal grandfather in Orange County, NC. He enlisted at Hillsborough on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June. He was appointed Color Bearer on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry and in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers;2 thanks to Steve Peck for the nudge to look deeper into that. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as W. Henry Campbell.

Birth

12/04/1843; Orange County, NC

Death

10/14/1863; Bristoe Station, VA

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 31506]

2 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 239 [AotW citation 31507]

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