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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Mason

(c. 1832 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, he was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD about 8 September, was left behind, and was captured there on the 12th.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, sent to Fort Delaware, then, on 2 October, on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November. He was in various hospitals in Richmond, VA after 11 October 1862 and died of chronic diarrhea in CS General Hospital #24 on 1 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William F Mason. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1832; Montgomery County, NC

Death

05/01/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 34148]

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: #186 [AotW citation 34149]

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