William E. Redford

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 5 slaves on their farm at Rolesville in Wake County, NC. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted at Forestville, NC on 12 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, First North Carolina Infantry.

He was captured in Boonsboro, MD on 15 September 1862.

He was admitted to US Army Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD and transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 19 September. He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged there to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was with his company to August 1864, when he was wounded and later sick in a hospital at Goldsboro, NC. He probably returned to duty in early 1865 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was back with his parents and 3 siblings farming near Forestville in Wake County, NC. By 1900 and to at least 1920 he was farming at Rolesville, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, and 1900-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his marker has his birth in 1842.

He married Alice Smith Hartsfield (1853-1934) in January 1884 and they had 3 children.

c. 1845 in NC

1928; burial in Redford Family Cemetery, Rolesville, NC