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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Drayton Hoard

(1840 - 1918)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living on Andrew Grooms' place at Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 25 September 1861 in his native Butts County, GA and mustered the same day as a Private in Company A of the 30th Georgia Infantry. He was listed as absent without leave after 15 January 1862 and he enlisted again, in Coosa County, AL on 9 March 1862, and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 in service with his company through the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Indian Springs back in Butts County, GA.

References & notes

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.

Birth

01/1840 in GA

Death

03/20/1918; Indian Springs, GA; burial in Mount Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery, Indian Springs, GA

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 32603]

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 32604]

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