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W.E. Bass
(1837 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer at Bennett's Crossroads in Sampson County, NC. He enlisted there on 18 October 1861 and mustered on 16 January 1862 at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company C, 38th 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 afterward in a Richmond, VA hospital with hepatitis from 15 to 25 October and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 20 November 1862. He was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and died two days later.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; 2 carded records have him killed outright at Chancellorsville on 3 May. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of William and his wife contributed by Gary E Gray.
He married Mary Julia Carr (1839-1907) in about 1861 and they had a son John (1862-1930).
Birth
09/12/1837; Sampson County, NC
Death
05/05/1863; in VA
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 34608]
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: #424 [AotW citation 34609]