William Monroe Calaway

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 13 slaves on their plantation near Midway in Barbour County, AL. He enlisted on 3 July 1861 at Fort Mitchell, AL and mustered as a Private in Company B, 15th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded on 27 June 1862 at Cold Harbor, VA.

He was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured there.

He was paroled in Pleasant Valley, MD on 15 October, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA on 17 October 1862 for exchange. He served with his company to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1880 he was a physician in Collin County, TX but in 1900 was farming near Bowie in Montague County, TX. He had retired there by 1910 but was again practicing medicine, in Bowie, in 1920. He was again retired there in 1930.

His service from the Alabama Archives1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his photograph, contributed by Stanley A. Hutson; thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that picture.

He married Emily Evalina "Dolly" Walden (1869-1959) in October 1885 and they had 6 children.

04/29/1842 in AL

10/23/1931; Montague County, TX; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Bowie, TX