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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William King

(c. 1823 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 37 year old married farmer at Mantevallo in Shelby County, AL. Giving his post office as Lime Kiln Station (now Calera), he enlisted at Mantevallo on 10 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Except for brief absence for illness in October 1863, he was with his company in action from Fredericksburg in December 1862, through Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Knoxville in 1863, and at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor in 1864. He was seriously wounded in the side by a sharpshooter at Petersburg, VA on 21 June 1864. He was in hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA and at Jackson, MS to 23 January 1865, then retired for disability. He was surrendered and paroled with other "stragglers" at Selma, AL in June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was again a farmer at Calera, AL.

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. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 & 1870.

Birth

c. 1823; Dallas County, AL

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 31646]

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 31647]

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