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(? - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died in Frederick, MD on 5 October 1862. Originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett,1 as William Hill. Service basics from the Alabama Archives,2 which says he was killed outright on South Mountain. He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD (source of his date of death), and may still be there. His stones at Mt. Olivet are on Findagrave.
Death
10/05/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4738]