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Pvt William McMullen

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Pvt William McMullen Veteran

Birth
Ray County, Missouri, USA
Death
12 Jul 1863 (aged 20–21)
Fort Delaware, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Burial
Pennsville, Salem County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Private, Company D, 1st Regiment, Missouri Cavalry

William McMullen enlisted on December 1, 1861, at Camden, Greene County, Missouri, for 6 months in Capt. W. C. Parker's Cavalry Company, Missouri Volunteers. This company subsequently became Company D, 1st Regiment Missouri Cavalry. His horse was valued at $110, and his horse equipments at $7.

He was absent sick in Arkansas on the May and June 1862 company muster roll, and absent sick on the September and October 1862 roll. He was present in November and December 1862. He was due $50 bounty. He was missing at Bakers Creek on May 16, 1863. He was captured at Big Black on May 17, 1863, and sent to Memphis, Tennessee, on May 25, 1863. He was received at Fort Delaware, Delaware, on June 15, 1863. His name was on a list of Prisoners of War to be sent from Fort Delaware to City Point, Virginia, for exchange in July 1863, but he was left in the hospital at Fort Delaware, and died there of chronic diarrhea on July 12, 1863, while a Prisoner of War.

He had served in M. S. G. Parker's Co. Scouts for 1 month. He was engaged at Sugar Creek, Bentonville, Elkhorn, and other places.

Sources:
William McMullin, age 19, Confederate Civil War Service Records, fold3.
Civil War Prisoners of War Records, Register of Confederates Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861–1865, Finn's Point, Salem, NJ, NARA.
Private, Company D, 1st Regiment, Missouri Cavalry

William McMullen enlisted on December 1, 1861, at Camden, Greene County, Missouri, for 6 months in Capt. W. C. Parker's Cavalry Company, Missouri Volunteers. This company subsequently became Company D, 1st Regiment Missouri Cavalry. His horse was valued at $110, and his horse equipments at $7.

He was absent sick in Arkansas on the May and June 1862 company muster roll, and absent sick on the September and October 1862 roll. He was present in November and December 1862. He was due $50 bounty. He was missing at Bakers Creek on May 16, 1863. He was captured at Big Black on May 17, 1863, and sent to Memphis, Tennessee, on May 25, 1863. He was received at Fort Delaware, Delaware, on June 15, 1863. His name was on a list of Prisoners of War to be sent from Fort Delaware to City Point, Virginia, for exchange in July 1863, but he was left in the hospital at Fort Delaware, and died there of chronic diarrhea on July 12, 1863, while a Prisoner of War.

He had served in M. S. G. Parker's Co. Scouts for 1 month. He was engaged at Sugar Creek, Bentonville, Elkhorn, and other places.

Sources:
William McMullin, age 19, Confederate Civil War Service Records, fold3.
Civil War Prisoners of War Records, Register of Confederates Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861–1865, Finn's Point, Salem, NJ, NARA.


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