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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William C. Williamson

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old wagoner living with his parents and 7 siblings at Homer in Banks County, GA. He enlisted in Banks County as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry on 24 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father Robert filed for his final pay in May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother John was also killed at Crampton's Gap.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33651]

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