William Hatchett Womack

Son of wealthy planter Green Peay Womack (1807-1872), in 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer living with brother Martin, sister Elizabeth Jane, and his 8 slaves at Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 29 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 18 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was ill in a hospital in Danville, VA from 18 June to 13 August 1862.

He was captured near Williamsport, MD on 15 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October when he was transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was furloughed home on 15 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty in about January 1863. He was detailed to a hospital in Danville, VA in March 1863 and absent on detail to at least 25 January 1865 noted as "unfit for field duty."

By 1870 he was farm manager on the Calvin Vernon place at Yanceyville, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1870, also as Wormack; he never married.

08/27/1832; Caswell County, NC