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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William J. Teal

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 24 year old bookkeeper, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 16 August 1862.

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 Staunton (or Fisher's Hill), VA on 27 September 1864 and sent to Point Lookout, MD by way of Harpers Ferry, WV on 10 October. He was exchanged on 10 February 1865, admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 16 February, and furloughed for 30 days on 8 March 1865. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1837 in NC

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 32958]

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 32959]

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