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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Nelson Watson

(1833 - 1912)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 27 year old farmer at Wedowee in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Lamar/Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. In 1900 he was farming at Red Hill in Marshall County, AL but in 1910 he had finally retired and was living with his son Sam and family at Joppa in Cullman County, AL.

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 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Alletha Hardiman (1839-1908) in October 1854 and they had 14 children.

Birth

11/09/1833; Troup County, GA

Death

1912; Marshall County, AL; burial in Rice Cemetery, Arab, AL

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 32995]

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 32996]

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