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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Williams

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker on his father's place at Kingston in Autauga County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was paroled near Sharpsburg on 27 September and in Richmond, VA by 22 October 1862. He was back with his company by November 1863 and was killed at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864.

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.

His brother Lark was also in Company F and wounded and captured at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1843; Autauga County, AL

Death

06/03/1864; Cold Harbor, 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 33018]

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 33019]

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