William A. Johnson

In 1860 he was an unmarried 23 year old attorney at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 2 July 1861 at Weogufka in Coosa County and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was ill with pneumonia in Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA from 10 December 1862 to 25 February 1863.

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 First Sergeant on 1 November 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh at Jones Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864 and was furloughed for 30 days on 5 October; the bullet was never removed. He was a prisoner of the US Army in Libby Prison in Richmond, VA in April 1865 and sent to City Point, VA with no later military record.

He first applied for a Confederate pension in March 1892, then a farmer at Quincy in Coosa County. His widow Mary Elizabeth began receiving a pension by 1899.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and Alabama Military Pension Records 1879–1940, online from the FamilySearch database.

He married Mary A. Elizabeth Jordan in March 1868 in Coosa County and they had a daughter Lizzie.

c. 1837; Macon, GA

07/15/1897