[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Hatchett

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 18 slaves on their substantial farm near Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 29 April 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company A of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 24 June in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the arm and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 17 October when he was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 22 October and furloughed home on 24 October 1862. He never rejoined his company and was discharged for disability, his arm paralyzed, on 30 January 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer at Pelham in Caswell County, NC.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.

He married Harriett E. Montgomery (1838-) in December 1866 and they had a daughter Annie (1869-).

Birth

c. 1840; Caswell County, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 473 [AotW citation 33129]

2 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 33130]

« Search for another Person