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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William R. Wilson

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old farmhand living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County on 2 July 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company H, 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 died of disease at Hanover Junction, VA on 24 December 1862. His father Jesse filed a claim for his final pay in August 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844 in AL

Death

12/24/1862; Hanover Junction, 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 33036]

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 33037]

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