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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Cox

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer on his parents' large place at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County, AL; his father owned 62 slaves. He enlisted there as a Private in Company A, 44th Alabama Infantry on 17 March 1862. He was slightly wounded at Frasier's Farm, VA in June 1862, with the 8th Alabama Infantry, his own unit "having moved while he was absent."

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left foot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 27 September with a "contusion of left foot" and was "left sick between Winchester and Culpeper" VA in November 1862. He was furloughed home from February to June 1863 then served with his company to at least December 1864. He was paroled at Ashland, VA on 25 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Williams B Cox. He's also on a casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from the US Population and Slave Censuses of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842; Sampson County, NC

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=41953 [AotW citation 31606]

2 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 31613]

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