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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William D. Young

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, he enlisted in Atlanta, GA on 8 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September (or at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September) 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Robert filed a claim for his final pay in April 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1842 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 33940]

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