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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Batten

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old farmer in Johnston County, he mustered as Private, Company C, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Wake County.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 25 September 1862, probably in Shepherdstown, VA (now WV).

References & notes

Burial and basic unit information from a list in Confederate Veteran,1 which has him as W.H. Pattern. Service and other details from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. His memorial is on Findagrave for a marker in the James W Batten Family Cemetery, Selma, NC.

Birth

1838; Johnston County, NC

Death

09/25/1862; burial in Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. XIX, pp. 75 - 76 [AotW citation 5129]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19087]

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