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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Wiley W. Luther

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 26 year old farmer in Rockdale, Rudolph County, AL. He enlisted on 24 April 1862 at Arbacoochee, AL and mustered as a Private in Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Corporal on 1 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

Except for brief periods of illness, he was with his company to at least the end of October 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama,1 which says he enlisted at age 32, 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. 1834 in GA

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 31711]

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 31712]

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