WILLIAM H TRAYLOR married ISABELLA MILLER (daughter of WILLIAM MILLER and ELIZABETH G WILSON) on Nov. 25, 1852 in York County, South Carolina.
On Dec. 1, 1859 he was living in Marion Co., Alabama and purchased 120.34 acres of land in Lamar Co., Alabama.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army on Dec. 7, 1861 in Fayette Co., Alabama. He served in O'Neal's Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company E, and was detailed as a teamster in 1862-1863, until the Regiment was detached to Andersonville where he was present for the muster roll on April 1, 1864.
According to the old story, WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was a brave man. His unit was having a battle with some Union soldiers, but they could not get their flag up the flagpole. WILLIAM volunteered to climb the pole and nail their flag to it. All the time that he was climbing, the Union soldiers were firing shots. WILLIAM nailed the flag to the pole and climbed down without ever getting shot.
After the Civil War, WILLIAM moved his family to the Splunge Community of Monroe Co., Mississippi.
Sometime between 1871 and 1872 WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and was buried at the Riggan Chapel Cemetery.
The inscription on his marker reads: WM H TRAYLOR, Co. E 26 Ala. Inf. CSA
On Dec. 1, 1859 he was living in Marion Co., Alabama and purchased 120.34 acres of land in Lamar Co., Alabama.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army on Dec. 7, 1861 in Fayette Co., Alabama. He served in O'Neal's Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company E, and was detailed as a teamster in 1862-1863, until the Regiment was detached to Andersonville where he was present for the muster roll on April 1, 1864.
According to the old story, WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was a brave man. His unit was having a battle with some Union soldiers, but they could not get their flag up the flagpole. WILLIAM volunteered to climb the pole and nail their flag to it. All the time that he was climbing, the Union soldiers were firing shots. WILLIAM nailed the flag to the pole and climbed down without ever getting shot.
After the Civil War, WILLIAM moved his family to the Splunge Community of Monroe Co., Mississippi.
Sometime between 1871 and 1872 WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and was buried at the Riggan Chapel Cemetery.
The inscription on his marker reads: WM H TRAYLOR, Co. E 26 Ala. Inf. CSA
WILLIAM H TRAYLOR married ISABELLA MILLER (daughter of WILLIAM MILLER and ELIZABETH G WILSON) on Nov. 25, 1852 in York County, South Carolina.
On Dec. 1, 1859 he was living in Marion Co., Alabama and purchased 120.34 acres of land in Lamar Co., Alabama.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army on Dec. 7, 1861 in Fayette Co., Alabama. He served in O'Neal's Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company E, and was detailed as a teamster in 1862-1863, until the Regiment was detached to Andersonville where he was present for the muster roll on April 1, 1864.
According to the old story, WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was a brave man. His unit was having a battle with some Union soldiers, but they could not get their flag up the flagpole. WILLIAM volunteered to climb the pole and nail their flag to it. All the time that he was climbing, the Union soldiers were firing shots. WILLIAM nailed the flag to the pole and climbed down without ever getting shot.
After the Civil War, WILLIAM moved his family to the Splunge Community of Monroe Co., Mississippi.
Sometime between 1871 and 1872 WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and was buried at the Riggan Chapel Cemetery.
The inscription on his marker reads: WM H TRAYLOR, Co. E 26 Ala. Inf. CSA
On Dec. 1, 1859 he was living in Marion Co., Alabama and purchased 120.34 acres of land in Lamar Co., Alabama.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army on Dec. 7, 1861 in Fayette Co., Alabama. He served in O'Neal's Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company E, and was detailed as a teamster in 1862-1863, until the Regiment was detached to Andersonville where he was present for the muster roll on April 1, 1864.
According to the old story, WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was a brave man. His unit was having a battle with some Union soldiers, but they could not get their flag up the flagpole. WILLIAM volunteered to climb the pole and nail their flag to it. All the time that he was climbing, the Union soldiers were firing shots. WILLIAM nailed the flag to the pole and climbed down without ever getting shot.
After the Civil War, WILLIAM moved his family to the Splunge Community of Monroe Co., Mississippi.
Sometime between 1871 and 1872 WILLIAM H TRAYLOR was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and was buried at the Riggan Chapel Cemetery.
The inscription on his marker reads: WM H TRAYLOR, Co. E 26 Ala. Inf. CSA
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