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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William John Dunn

(c. 1836 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Hickory Head in the Lancaster District, SC. He enlisted on 10 July 1862 at Columbia, SC and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 September and sent home on furlough for 30 days on 27 October. He was back with his company by December 1862. He died of typhoid fever in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 5 August 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as W.J. Dunn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann Bird (1832-1898) in October 1853 and they had 4 children.

Birth

c. 1836 in NC

Death

08/05/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 32201]

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