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(c. 1830 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 30 year old wheelwright at Durants Neck in Perquimans County, NC. He enlisted at Hertford, NC on 16 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was held at Fort McHenry, MD until paroled and transferred on 22 October to Aiken’s Landing, VA and exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He died in Perquimans County on 1 January 1863.
References & notes
Basic information from Wilson1. Some detail from the US Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors Database. His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as William Knight.
He married Margaret Turner (1832-) in 1852 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1830; Perquimans County, NC
Death
01/01/1863; Perquimans County, NC
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9923]
2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 9957]
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 34293]