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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William P. Wilson

(1837 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old clerk living with prosperous farmer (and hotel proprietor) Colonel William H. Brittain and family at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted on 20 April 1861 and mustered as the original First Sergeant of Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June. He was elected 3rd Lieutenant (Junior 2nd Lieutenant) on 5 October 1861, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 14 January 1862, and was was appointed First Lieutenant and Adjutant on 15 May (or 1 June).

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of disease at Greensboro, NC on 3 March 1863. His father Archibald filed for his final pay in September 1864.

References & notes

His service from his own List, 1 the Reminiscences,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/06/1837; Summerfield, NC

Death

03/03/1863; Greensboro, NC; burial in First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9808]

2 Sloan, John Alexander, Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N. C. Regiment, Washington DC: R. C. Polkinhorn, printer, 1883, pg. 122 [AotW citation 10022]

3 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 32099]

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