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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Arnold

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farmer living with 3 younger siblings in Wedowee, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company F of the Phillips (GA) Legion Cavalry on 15 March 1863 and was detailed as a teamster later in 1863. He was sent to Georgia to buy a horse in March or April 1864 and again detailed away to "procure a fresh horse" on 21 September 1864, with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839 in GA

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 32311]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32312]

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