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Submitted: 4/18/23 • Approved: 4/19/23 • Last Updated: 4/22/23 • R420193-G420191-S3
Susan
Wife of William P Sample
October 15, 1847 - August 7, 1936
William
THIRD SERGEANT CSA
Company F 9 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
February 3, 1841 - October 17, 1907
From Louisiana Archives ~ Sample, William P, Private Company F 9th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted July 7, 1861, Camp Moore, Louisiana. Roll to August 31, 1861, Absent, sick, at Richmond, since July 21, 1861, period till well or discharged. Rolls September, 1861. to December, 1861, Present. Roll to July 1, 1862, Appointed 3rd Sergeant April 16, 1862. On Roll not dated of Prisoners of War, Paroled and sent from Fort McHenry. Maryland. Received Aikens Landing, Virginia, October 25, 1862. Declared exchanged Aikens Landing October 10, 1862. Rolls December, 1862, to October, 1863, Absent, wounded. Rolls November, 1863, to February, 1864, Absent, wounded, since September, 17, 1862. West of the Mississippi. (Disabled for life.) Record copied from Memorial Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana, by the War Department, Washington, D C, June, 1903, born Louisiana, occupation student, Residence Mansfield, Louisiana, age when enlisted 20, single. Lost right leg.
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