William Lee Turner

Son of a shoe maker, in 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings at Jackson Hill in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted there on 3 June 1861 and mustered at Camp Mason in Alamance County on 21 August as a Private in Company F, 7th North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded in action on 30 June 1862 at Glendale near Richmond, VA.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospitals in Frederick: #1 to 22 September and #6 to 22 (or 24) October, briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 25 (or 27) October. He was back with his company by December 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot which broke the fibula of his left leg in action at Gettysburg, PA, and was captured there on 3 July. He was treated in a US Army field hospital until 14 July, then sent to the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA. He was transferred to City Point, VA on 17 September for exchange and was afterward in hospitals and home on furlough to at least August 1864. He was detailed to the Ambulance Corps, but was certified disabled for even light duty by a medical board at Petersburg, VA and discharged on 1 February 1865.

Going by Lee, in 1870 he was a farm worker living with his father-in-law Wilson Reeves and family on their farm in Eldorado Township, Montgomery County, NC. By 1880 he was farming his own place there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Elizabeth Louisa Reeves (1848-1893) in February 1866 and they had 8 children.

08/18/1840; Davidson County, NC

12/04/1896; in NC