William Franklin Young

Age 23, going by Franklin, he was conscripted in Wake County, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered in Raleigh as a Private in Company H, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 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 8 October, furloughed for 30 days on 25 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November. He returned to duty about May 1863.

He was in a hospital in Lynchburg, VA in August 1863. He was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, by then probably a Corporal. He was held at Point Lookout, MD, then transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY on 30 July (arriving 2 August) 1864. He died there of chronic diarrhea on 24 April 1865.

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

c. 1839

04/24/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY