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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William F. Marshall

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old apprentice living with his parents and 6 siblings at Decatur in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted there on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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 Andrew J. Marshall filed a claim for his final pay in October 1862.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1844 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 33853]

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