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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William C. Long

(c. 1823 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 37 year old mechanic at Centreville in Bibb County, AL. Giving his age as 34, he enlisted at Six Mile, AL on 11 April 1862 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company H, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm, a bone broken in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA and was sent home on furlough on 1 October 1862, but he never returned to his company.

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.

Birth

c. 1823 in SC

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 31685]

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 31686]

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