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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Joseph Fletcher

(1830 - 1902)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 30 year old planter with 3 slaves at Flat Rock in the Kershaw District, SC. He enlisted at Camden, SC on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home on 25 December 1862 and rejoined his company in about April 1864 and was with them to at least October 1864, the last record in his military file.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer back in Flat Rock, SC.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Amelia Wilson (1837-1918) in October 1856 and they had 12 children.

Birth

10/08/1830; Flat Rock, SC

Death

01/11/1902; Kershaw County, SC; burial in Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery, Westville, SC

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 32208]

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