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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Jackson

(c. 1842 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried 19 year old farmer when he enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company G 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 but was away on detail for the battle at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 6 July 1863. He died there of typhoid fever on 6 March 1864 and was buried on the "Jersey Shore" - now the Finn's Point National Cemetery.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

Death

03/06/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 32660]

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 32661]

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