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Color CPL Wilbern Elia Windham

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Color CPL Wilbern Elia Windham Veteran

Birth
Pike County, Alabama, USA
Death
May 1864 (aged 24)
Wilderness Battlefield, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 13, Row 5, Grave 33
Memorial ID
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Company A ""Beauregard Rifles" of Mobile County, 9th Alabama Infantry, Perrin's Brigade, Anderson's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Enlisted for 3 years' or the duration of the war on 6/6/1861 at Greenville, Butler County, AL., he was mustered into Company G "Jeff Davis Rangers" of Butler County, 9th Alabama Infantry, as a Private.
Transferred into Company A ""Beauregard Rifles", 9th Alabama Infantry, on 3/23/1864; appointed Color Corporal 4/12/1864.
Present or accounted for on all Rolls from enlistment until Killed In Action in the Battle of The Wilderness.

The 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment, organized at Richmond, Virginia, during May, 1861, contained men recruited in the counties of Mobile, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan, Lauderdale, Limestone, Greene, Sumter, Butler, and Calhoun.
Company A ""Beauregard Rifles" of Mobile County, 9th Alabama Infantry, Perrin's Brigade, Anderson's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Enlisted for 3 years' or the duration of the war on 6/6/1861 at Greenville, Butler County, AL., he was mustered into Company G "Jeff Davis Rangers" of Butler County, 9th Alabama Infantry, as a Private.
Transferred into Company A ""Beauregard Rifles", 9th Alabama Infantry, on 3/23/1864; appointed Color Corporal 4/12/1864.
Present or accounted for on all Rolls from enlistment until Killed In Action in the Battle of The Wilderness.

The 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment, organized at Richmond, Virginia, during May, 1861, contained men recruited in the counties of Mobile, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan, Lauderdale, Limestone, Greene, Sumter, Butler, and Calhoun.

Inscription

W. WINDHAM
ALA



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