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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William L. Walker

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 26 year old overseer living with planter and lawyer Alfred Beck, his family, and 34 slaves on the Beck plantation at Rehoboth, Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted at Bridgeport, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1835 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 32987]

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 32988]

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