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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Wood

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmhand living with E.H. Narsworthy & wife, and 3 slaves on the Narsworthy farm at Equality in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action 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 on 6 January 1864 at Mt. Jackson, VA.

His widow Ann filed a claim for his final pay in July 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives;2 his records and those of William Henry Wood, also of Company H are mingled. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in AL

Death

01/06/1864; burial in Our Soldiers Cemetery, Mount Jackson, 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 33049]

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 33050]

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