William A. Powell

A married 32 year old farmer in Cleburne County, AL, he enlisted at Fair Play, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled on 20 September at Keedysville, MD and was back with his unit by the end of the year. He transferred to Company C on 1 February 1863 and lost a months' pay as sentence of a court martial in August 1863 (possibly for being absent without leave at Gettysburg), then was listed as a deserter on 14 September 1863. He was arrested in Alabama and returned to his company on 27 August 1864, and was mortally wounded at Darbytown Road near Richmond, VA on 7 October 1864. He was admitted to the Howard's Grove General Hospital in Richmond on 8 October and died there of wounds on 10 November 1864.

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 missing in action.

c. 1830 in GA

11/10/1864; Richmond, VA