William Munday

In 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with Munday relatives on a farm near Jerusalem in Davie County, NC. He enlisted in Mocksville, NC on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry at Garysburg, NC on 15 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right side and back in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and "left on the field" and captured there.

He was paroled on 3 October, admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October and sent to and the post hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 12 November. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 21 November and furloughed for 60 days on 29 November 1862. He was back with his unit by March 1863 and was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, where he "went into the fight when he could scarcely bear his gun from the effects of his wounds." He was detailed as a guard at the hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond, VA from 9 June 1863 to at least January 1865, at least sometimes a patient during that period, or on other light duty at Richmond. He was captured there on 3 April 1865 and paroled on 20 April.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as William Monday. Wound and hospital details also from the Patient List;3 he's listed in the 3rd North Carolina. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

c. 1839 in NC