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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William S. Safford

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 14th Alabama Infantry on 24 July 1861 in Hackneyville, AL.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was still listed as missing to October 1863 but by February 1864 he was presumed killed and his father Thomas filed a claim for his final pay.

References & notes

His service from Hurst,1 as William Saffold, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Hurst, Marshall B., History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols, Richmond (Va): M.B. Hurst, 1863, pp. 28 - 34 [AotW citation 9389]

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 27727]

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