William L. Adair enlisted in Company A, 40th Georgia Infantry as 1st Sergeant March 10, 1862. In 1863 he was serving as a private and was captured with the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. He was paroled and left at at that place in the hospital. He then appears on a list of Confederate prisoners delivered off Mobile Harbor, Alabama on board the SS Crescent on August 4, 1863. He was apparently released in a prisoner exchange and Killed in Action at Atlanta, Georgia on July 22, 1864.
Source: PAULDING COUNTY GA Co A 40th GA Regt. Inft
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Brandon W.L. Hobgood
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/paulding/40thcoa.txt
William Levi Adair, having fallen in The Battle of Atlanta, was, apparently, buried in Oakland Cemetery. That Find A Grave memorial is # 36665018.
William L. Adair enlisted in Company A, 40th Georgia Infantry as 1st Sergeant March 10, 1862. In 1863 he was serving as a private and was captured with the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. He was paroled and left at at that place in the hospital. He then appears on a list of Confederate prisoners delivered off Mobile Harbor, Alabama on board the SS Crescent on August 4, 1863. He was apparently released in a prisoner exchange and Killed in Action at Atlanta, Georgia on July 22, 1864.
Source: PAULDING COUNTY GA Co A 40th GA Regt. Inft
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Brandon W.L. Hobgood
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/paulding/40thcoa.txt
William Levi Adair, having fallen in The Battle of Atlanta, was, apparently, buried in Oakland Cemetery. That Find A Grave memorial is # 36665018.
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