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- A BRIEF HISTORY OF W.W. STAFFORD'S MILITARY HISTORY: William Wyley Stafford, joined the Confederate Army Jan 11, 1862 at Milan, TN at the age of 19 years. He joined Capt. S. Woodruff's Co., Tennessee Volunteers receiving the rank of Private. This Company later was called Co. E, 1st Regiment Confederate Cavalry. Ath his Company Muster Roll Call dated May 14, 1862, William was paid $50.00 Bounty due for service during Oct. 30,
1862/3, the date of his last pay to May 14, 1863. When he received this pay, he had been promoted to 2nd class Corporal of the 2nd Co. E, 1 Reg't Confederate Cavalry. This company was formed Jan. 28 1863 by the consolidation of (1st) Company E and (2nd) Company F of this regiment. The 1st Reg't Confederate Cavalry also known as the 6th, 12th, and 16th Reg't and as Claiborne's and Lay's Regiment Confederate Cavalry, was formed
about Apr. 1, 1862 by the addition of four companies to the six companies of which the 1st (King's) Battalion Kentucky Cavalry, or Mounted Riflemen was composed. By this, we know William was a mounted rifleman in the Calvary. William was captured at Shelbyville, TN on Jun 27, 1863. He was on a list of prisoners of war forwarded from Franklin, TN to Brig. Gen'l
b. Mitchell at Nashville, TN. The date was June 30, 1863. He was sent from Shelbyville, TN to a Military Prison in Louisville, KY. He next appeared on the Roll of Prisoners of War sent from military Prison, Louisville, KY, to Camp Chase, Ohio dated July 6, 1863. After eight days in the prison camp in Ohio, William was transferred to Fort Delaware, Del., from Camp
Chase, Ohio, July 14, 1863. Notice the date. One day short of a year later, William died in that prison of scurvy, a disease resulting from a vitamin C deficiency. While he was missing family letters passed between Christmasville, TN, where "Will" gone to join the South with his first cousins in Carroll County, TN and Bloomfield, MO where his mother and father anxiously awaited word from him. William Wylie was buried at the National Cemetery at Finn's Point, (Salem) New Jersey. the ground on the Delaware side of the river was unstable for graves and the prison's dead were moved to the New Jersey side. Back home his brother, Thomas
Jefferson, had named a son William Wylie. William Wylie Stafford, the brave soldier, loving son and brother, will be rembered and honored.
Died:
- A LETTER FROM WILLIAM WYLIE STAFFORD TO HIS FATHER LARKIN M. STAFFORD:
Fort Delaware (Prison) 10 Jan 1/14 My Dear Father, I was in the hospital in the baracks a month. I got better and then came here 1st January with Scurvy. For a week I can hardly move myself. i had the small pox I got sent up there before I came here. I got very weak with that before got this sickness. If I get well I would like have a suit of clothes. I think I will get well, that's my belief. I trust God I put myself in his mercy. Pray God for me so I will get home to see you. My father and Dear Mother and sisters dear Mother I remember your many kindnesses to me...dearly (?) my brothers and sisters i would like you ____ to be sure and answer my letter and you my Sister Susan write too. My love to you all and also to
enquiring friends.
Your son,
W.M. (Wm.) Stafford
By Chaplin Paddock: P.S. I am sorry to say you son is since dead. I wrote the above for him. He was then sinking fast. I hope he has gone to a better world.
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1842 - 1864 (21 years)
