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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Williams

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Greenville, AL, he enlisted there on 5 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery on 19 July as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November, but died of typhoid fever in the hospital on 15 November 1862.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

Death

11/15/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, 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 33022]

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 33023]

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