William Penn Holmes

In 1860 he was a married 31 year old cabinet maker at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 5 (or 24) March 1862 in Coosa County and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and exchanged to return to duty in June. He was captured again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1880 he was a farmer in Tuscaloosa County, AL but by 1900 he was farming in Jefferson County, AL. In 1910 he was a self-employed mechanic living with his son Thomas and family at Branchville in St Clair County, 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, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lourana Lot Watts (1837-1907) in December 1854 and they had 9 children.

08/28/1831; Coweta County, GA

04/13/1914; in AL; burial in Central Baptist Church Cemetery. Trussville, AL