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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Hethcock

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he enlisted on 20 June 1861 in Garysburg, NC and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 10 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was listed as a deserter from 27 May 1863 to at least 11 August, but returned to his company. He was captured (or deserted to the enemy) at Raccoon Ford, VA on 8 February 1864 and was sent to Alexandria, VA on 16 February, but there is no later military or prison record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1833

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 34418]

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: #326 [AotW citation 34419]

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