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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Lewis Burell

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer on his widowed mother Vesta/Vasta's place in the Abbeville District, SC. Known by Lewis, he enlisted at Greenwood, SC on 17 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 2nd South Carolina Infantry on 23 May.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 30 September and died of wounds about 15 October 1862 at Sharpsburg. His mother applied for his final pay in January 1863.

References & notes

His service details from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1838; Abbeville District, SC

Death

10/15/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 32188]

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