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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Phillips

(c. 1837 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 24 year old farmer, he enlisted at Greenville, Butler County, AL on 5 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and died of chronic dysentery while a prisoner at Fort Delaware on 22 November 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837 in AL

Death

11/22/1863; 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 32843]

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 32844]

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