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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Robinson

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 34 year old farmer at Centreville in Bibb County, AL, he enlisted there on 28 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in both legs in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 10 October and sent on to the next day. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 18 October and again on 12 November. He was wounded again, at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863, and was admitted to a hospital in Jackson, MS on 1 October. He was furloughed home on 6 December 1863. He was absent recovering and on detail for most of the rest of the war.

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.

Birth

c. 1828 in 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 31662]

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 31663]

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