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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Welch

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 24 year old sailor in Montgomery, AL, he enlisted in there on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 wounded by a gunshot to his back at Mine Run VA on 27 November 1863 and was afterward absent in hospitals and on furlough for the whole of 1864. He returned to duty on 17 February 1865, was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865, and paroled again, at Montgomery, AL on 19 May 1865.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1837 in IRELAND

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 32999]

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 33000]

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