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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Winston Wood Bolt

(1839 - 1904)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with wealthy manufacturer R.J. Wood at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered 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 was captured at Falling Waters, MD on the return from Gettysburg on 14 July 1863. He was sent to Fort Delaware and was released after taking an oath of allegiance on 14 June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker back at Wedowee, AL and by 1880 and to at least 1900 farmed his own place there.

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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/05/1839; Wedowee, AL

Death

11/01/1904; Wedowee, AL; burial in Ava Methodist Cemetery, Wedowee, AL

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 32350]

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 32351]

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