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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Carrol Mahan

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a carpenter at Oakelyville in Shelby County, AL and enlisted there on 2 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 25 September, and in a hospital in Selma, AL from 13 December to 6 February 1863, then rejoined his company. He was detailed as a hospital nurse from 1 June to 1 August 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as a Sergeant.

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> [AotW citation 31634]

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 31635]

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