William Lee Hayes

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his father, 3 siblings, and 8 slaves on their farm at Prairie Bluff in Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted in Bridgeford, AL on 18 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 December 1862. He was wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his face and neck on on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and captured there, and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was farming his own place back at Prairie Bluff/Boiling Springs, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine A. Gamble (1847-1902) in March 1867 and they had 4 boys and a girl.

12/21/1838 in AL

05/25/1904; Boiling Springs, AL; burial in McKinley Cemetery, McKinley, AL