William Fitzgerald Dean

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted there on 6 July 1861 (or at Montgomery, AL on 19 July) and mustered as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was sick with intermittent fever in the Seminary Hospital in Williamsburg, VA in November and in Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA in December 1861. He was back with his company about 1 January 1862.

He was with his company in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 1 May 1863 but was wounded by a gunshot to his scalp at Chancellorsville, VA 2 days later on 3 May. He was admitted to the 2nd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 May and was furloughed home for 30 days on 6 June 1863. He was back with his company and in action again at Mine Run, VA in November 1863. He transferred to the 19th (?) Alabama Infantry in December 1863 with no later military record found.

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. He also has a 1933 government stone about 10 miles away in Liberty Cemetery. There is yet another stone, a modern marker, in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA for him - probably a mis-identification.

He married Caroline Stalvey (1834-) in July 1856 and they had a son, Columbus. He married again, Martha Ann Gill (1840-1922) in July 1888.

03/07/1834; Talbot County, GA

06/26/1908; Columbus, GA; burial in Shiloh-Marion Baptist Church Cemetery, Church Hill, GA