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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William R. Smith

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Infantry (Provisional Army)

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents, 6 younger siblings, and 8 slaves on their farm at Williston in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted there on 13 July 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 19 August as a Private in Company A, South Carolina Infantry (1st Provisional Army).

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 October, then transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled for exchange. He was mortally wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and died there the next day.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/25/1841; Williston, SC

Death

12/14/1862; Fredericksburg, VA; burial in Williston Cemetery, Williston, SC

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 34076]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #461 [AotW citation 34077]

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