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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Lewis Haigler

(1842 - 1903)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his widowed mother's plantation (13 slaves) at St. Matthews in the Orangeburg District, SC. He enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe on 13 October for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 24 October and was furloughed home on 1 (or 11) November 1862. He returned to duty late in 1864, with no military record later than December 1864.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Orangeburg Court House/Lyons Township, in Orangeburg County, SC.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900.

He married Sarah Ann "Sallie" Shuler (later Jones; 1850-1931) in November 1868 and they had 4 children.

His brother Esau was also wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

08/02/1842; Orangeburg District, SC

Death

07/16/1903; Orangeburg County, 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 32219]

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