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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles B. Ward

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmer living with his parents and 2 younger brothers on their small farm at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was reduced to Private on 20 January 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 listed as missing presumed killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840 in AL

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, 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 32989]

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 32990]

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