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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William B. Simmons

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, he was conscripted in Bladen County, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 hospital in Richmond, VA by 6 October, furloughed for 30 days on 24 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was listed as absent without leave after 20 November 1862 and eventually as a deserter; he never returned to his company. He was a Federal prisoner at Bermuda Hundred, VA on 19 March 1865 and was listed among rebels deserters who took an oath of allegiance to the United States in Washington, DC on 24 March, and was furnished transportation to Wilmington, NC.

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. 1843

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 34440]

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: #427  [AotW citation 34441]