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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William H. Bryan

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Tallahassee, FL on 26 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 5th Florida Infantry. He was promoted to 4th Corporal about June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 September, left behind, and captured there on the 12th.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was appointed 4th Sergeant by December 1862, promoted to 3rd Sergeant in about April 1863, and to First Sergeant on 20 April 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 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. 1840

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 34797]

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: #360 [AotW citation 34798]

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