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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William Archable Stanfield

(1829 - 1895)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 30 year old clerk living with trader James Chance and his family at Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted in Milton, NC on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Raleigh, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was appointed 4th Corporal on 26 April 1862 during the army reorganization.

On the Campaign

He was captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862, probably after deserting his unit.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC and sent to City Point, VA in June 1863 for exchange. He did not return to his company.

After the War

By 1880 he was a grocer at Danville, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Perkins (1843-1916) in February 1867 and they had a son William Walter (1874-1945).

Birth

06/23/1829 in TN

Death

07/10/1895; burial in Lowes United Methodist Church Cemetery, Reidsville, NC

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 33267]

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