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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Vuncannon

(c. 1835 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a blacksmith, in 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings at Newmarket in Randolph County, NC. He was conscripted there on 17 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA to 14 November 1862, then furloughed for 30 days. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, was in a hospital in Staunton, VA by 11 July, then on furlough to 15 December 1863. He was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. There are no later service, prisoner of war, or personal records for him, which suggests he died soon after capture in May 1864, before he could be processed as a POW.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Priscilla Lewis (1838-1888) in July 1860 and they had 2 sons.

His brother Alson was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1835 in NC

Death

05/1864; in VA

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 109 - 111 [AotW citation 6163]

2 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 34471]

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