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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William McFarland

(? - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was in Company B.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the leg and captured in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged in November 1862, but did not return to his Company, being reported dead.

References & notes

Basic information from Wilson1. Some detail from the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. Details of his exchange and death from Sloan's Reminiscences2.

Death

1862

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 9833]

2 Sloan, John Alexander, Reminiscences of the Guilford Grays, Co. B., 27th N. C. Regiment, Washington DC: R. C. Polkinhorn, printer, 1883, pg. 47 [AotW citation 9866]

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