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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Simeon Williamson

(1843 - 1925)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 21 year old farmer living with his widowed mother and 3 siblings on their small farm at Clayton in Barbour County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He served with his company to the end of the war, and was paroled at Farmville, VA between 11 and 21 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was again farming on his mother's place in Barbour County.

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 & 1870.

He married Eliza Caroline Spires (1845-1939) in December 1865 in Barbour County and they had 4 daughters.

Birth

1843; Barbour County, AL

Death

1925; in LA

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 33026]

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 33027]

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