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(c. 1838 - 1862)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Camp Hampton in Columbia, SC on 2 January 1862 and mustered as 5th Sergeant of Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital #1 at Frederick, MD on 17 September and died of wounds there on the 19th.
His widow Nancy applied for his final pay of $96.43 in May 1863.
References & notes
Burial and death information from the Mt Olivet burial list.1 His service from Davis2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as Sumerrel and Sumerell. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,4 as Pvt. W. W. Somerhall. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern stone has him as Pvt. W. W. Somerhall in the 3rd South Carolina Artillery.
Birth
c. 1838; Laurens District, SC
Death
09/19/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 Farino, Greg, and J. Ronald Pearcey, superintendent, Confederate Soldiers buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5143]
2 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pg. 459 [AotW citation 16004]
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 32290]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.571 [AotW citation 32289]