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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William D. Wright

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his father Belson, 6 siblings, and 1 slave on their farm at Suffolk in Nansemond County, VA. He enlisted at Tann Crossroads, VA on 11 June 1861 and mustered there on 30 June as a Private in Company B of the 16th Virginia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, then at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was back with his company and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded on 30 July 1864, probably in the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, VA, and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

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.

Birth

c. 1839

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 34185]

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: #458 [AotW citation 34186]

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