Residence: Huntsville AL; Single; student.
Enlisted for 1 year's service on 4/26/1861 at Huntsville, AL, he was mustered into Company I "North Alabamians", 4th Alabama Infantry, as a Private.
Present from enlistment on all Rolls and every battle that the 4th Alabama was involved in until Killed In Action in Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (part of Seven Days' Battles).
The 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Dalton, Georgia, in May 1861. The men were recruited in Dallas, Madison, Macon, Lauderdale, Jackson, Marengo, Perry, and Conecuh counties.
It reported 130 men disabled at Gaines' Mill.
[He is listed as W. R. Ackler in Register of the Confederate Dead, Interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond (Va.)Published by Gary, Clemmitt and Jones, printers, Richmond, VA. 1869.]
Residence: Huntsville AL; Single; student.
Enlisted for 1 year's service on 4/26/1861 at Huntsville, AL, he was mustered into Company I "North Alabamians", 4th Alabama Infantry, as a Private.
Present from enlistment on all Rolls and every battle that the 4th Alabama was involved in until Killed In Action in Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (part of Seven Days' Battles).
The 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Dalton, Georgia, in May 1861. The men were recruited in Dallas, Madison, Macon, Lauderdale, Jackson, Marengo, Perry, and Conecuh counties.
It reported 130 men disabled at Gaines' Mill.
[He is listed as W. R. Ackler in Register of the Confederate Dead, Interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Hollywood Memorial Association of Richmond (Va.)Published by Gary, Clemmitt and Jones, printers, Richmond, VA. 1869.]
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William K. Acklen
CO I 4th ALA Reg
Fell in the gallant charge at Gaines Mill
June 27,1862
Gravesite Details
Body later removed to Huntsville, Alabama
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