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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William F. Hunter

(1839 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 9 siblings on their modest farm at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 11 June 1861 and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded in the thigh and right arm at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863, and his right arm was amputated. He died of wounds in hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 November 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

10/11/1839; Guilford County, NC

Death

11/09/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Tabernacle United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Garden, NC

Notes

1 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 32091]

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