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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William G. Baird

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Tabitha, 3 siblings, and 9 slaves on their place at Realtown in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal in Company F, 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 was promoted to 3rd Sergeant about June 1863 and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was held at Fort Delaware and died there on 16 March 1864 from "inflammation of brain."

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

03/16/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 32328]

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 32329]

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