William Joseph Ward

An unmarried 22 year old farmer at Montgomery, AL, he enlisted there on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was absent, ill from May into July 1863, but rejoined his company after the battle at Gettysburg, PA and was captured on the return march at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863. He was briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC then a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 23 August 1863 to 13 February 1865, when he was exchanged. There is no later military record.

He married in Lincoln County, TN in December 1868 but by 1880 he was a mill worker back in Montgomery, AL. In 1900 he was a farmer in Winfield, Marion County, AL and in 1910, then 70 years old, was still a working farmer, in Fayette County, AL.

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 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Murrah (1844-1924) in December 1868 and they had 7 children.

10/1839; Mount Meigs, Montgomery County, AL

08/11/1918; Prattville, AL; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL