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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Lard

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Leon, AL, he enlisted on 3 July 1861 at Greenville, AL (or 19 July 1861 in Montgomery) and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was severely wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the 3rd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 October and furloughed on 10 October 1862. He was discharged for disability on 23 April 1863.

After the War

He applied for a Confederate veteran's pension in June 1889 in Crenshaw County, where he was a farmer.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as William J. Laird, and from the Alabama Archives,2 also as William J Land.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

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 32714]

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 32715]

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