NORWOOD, WILLIAM, Co E, private, enlisted for 3 years in
Huntingdon, TN on 6/28/62 and mustered at Humboldt, TN on
8/24/62. He was captured and paroled at the battle of
Trenton, TN on 12/20/62 but has no muster rolls from Camp
Chase, Ohio parole camp. Presumed captured with the
regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Norwood was taken to
Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died on 9/17/64 of
diarrhea. He was most likely the son of Lewis and Adaline
Brackins Norwood and would have enlisted at about age 18.
MR #1269
(Medical):See attached sources.3 5
Sources:
- William Norwood's Civil War Service Record
- Prisoners Who Died At Andersonville - Atwater List, Dorence Atwater
- The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service
- Wm Norwood Headstone - Andersonville National Cemetery
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
