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W.D. Moffett
(c. 1840 - 1869)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 49th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of wealthy lawyer Horatio Gates Moffett (1808-1892), in 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents, 3 siblings, and 19 slaves at Washington in Rappahannock County, VA. He enrolled on 22 July 1861 at Davis Barracks, VA and mustered as Junior 2nd (or 3rd) Lieutenant of the Rappahannock Rifles - Company I (later G), 49th Virginia Infantry. He was detailed on Provost Marshal duty from 14 November to at least the end of February 1862. He was elected Captain on 30 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his company by November 1862. He was treated for a gunshot in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA from 13 May to 17 July 1864, and was listed as absent without leave at Christmas 1864 and presumed home in Washington, VA, but was back on duty again by February 1865. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1868 he was a newly married "lawyer of great promise" in Virginia.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His picture from a heavily over-painted photograph in the Greg Walden Collection; thanks to John Banks for the pointer to that.
He married
Virginia Moore (1847-1920) in December 1868.
Birth
c. 1840; Washington, VA
Death
05/30/1869
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 34377]