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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Chandler

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm at Poplar Spring in Hall County, GA. He enlisted in Banks County, GA on 24 August 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD with no military record after 19 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

09/08/1842; Hunter's Creek, GA

Death

1862

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 33643]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #42 [AotW citation 34262]

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