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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William Hugh Crawford

(1842 - 1918)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of wealthy planter Daniel S Crawford (1806-1891), in 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old student living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 48 slaves on their plantation near Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was elected Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant on 9 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He continued with his company "taking part in every engagement" to the end of the war, and was was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Nixburg in Coosa County, AL.

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 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Eliza 'Mollie" Smith (1847-1919) in February 1868 and they had 10 children.

Birth

05/26/1842; Nixburg, AL

Death

06/25/1918; Nixburg, AL; burial in Nixburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Nixburg, 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 32438]

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 32439]

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