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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Black

(c. 1846 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Palmetto (SC) Sharpshooters

Before Sharpsburg

Age 16, from Spartanburg County, he mustered as Private, Company M, Palmetto Sharpshooters in May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Rolls 1 and his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1846

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company M, Palmetto SS, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24178]