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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Wilson

(c. 1837 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 24 year old farmer at Goldridge in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted in Eastville, AL on 1 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 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 was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to his death of chronic diarrhea on 7 January 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1837 in SC

Death

01/07/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 33034]

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 33035]

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