[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

William A. Taylor

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 April 1861 and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company F, 3rd Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and "Brigadier-General Rodes reports as specially deserving notice for their gallantry ... Sergt William Taylor."

The rest of the War

He was slightly wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, by then First Sergeant, and was elected Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant at Grace Church, VA on 21 May 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right thigh at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and "carried from the field." He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 15 July then furloughed home for 60 days. He was back in a Richmond hospital from April to at least June 1864. He was again with his company by August, but absent on a leave of indulgence in and after January 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The Rodes quote above from General D H Hill's after-action report.

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /research/CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=200106, etc. [AotW citation 33997]

2 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 33998]

« Search for another Person