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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William L. McCane

(c. 1833 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 29 year old farmer at Greenville, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 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 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot, his thigh broken, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 10 May but died there on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as W.L. McCaine, and the Alabama Archives,2 as William L. McCain. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1833 in GA

Death

05/18/1863; Richmond, VA

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 32757]

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 32758]

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