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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Scott

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 34 year old farmer from Onslow County, NC, he enlisted there on 6 September 1861 and mustered near Raleigh on 17 October as a Private in Company A, 35th 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 18 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 10 October, transferred to Scottsville, VA on 20 October, and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. Except for a month in the hospital with intermittent fever in August and September 1864, he was with his company to at least December 1864, then on detail to the Engineer Corps with no military record after February 1865.

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. 1827 in NC

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 34575]

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: #28 [AotW citation 34576]

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