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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William F. Bartlett

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his father, stepmother, brother James, and paternal grandmother Ann on their small farm near Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 17 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was back on duty about January 1863 and may have been wounded again at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May (no details in his CSRs). He was reported missing at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, and not afterward heard from. Presumed killed in battle.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed under Bartlette. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

His brother James was also in Company B.

Birth

c. 1843 in NC

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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. 476 [AotW citation 33157]

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 33158]

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