[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Porter

(c. 1839 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farm worker living with his father and 6 or 7 siblings on their small farm at Mt Olive/Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company C 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 at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863 but absent afterward on furlough for much of the next year. He was again in action at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, VA in May 1864 but was killed at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839 in AL

Death

06/03/1864; Cold Harbor, 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 32849]

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 32850]

« Search for another Person