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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William McFarland

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 19, he enlisted in Greensboro, NC on 28 February 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

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 listed as exchanged in November 1862, but did not return to his Company, being reported dead. I did not find any of the usual Federal records of his capture or exchange.

References & notes

His service from Wilson,1 the Reminiscences,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1843; Guilford County, NC

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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