Name: FLEMING, WILLIAM CROSBY DAWSON "DOSS"
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 14 August 1861 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama, age 19
Service History: Present Winchester VA May 25 62, Cross Keys Jun 8 62, Cold Harbor Jun 27 62, Malvern Hill Jul 2 62, Cedar Mt. Aug 9 62, Hazel River Aug 23 62, Manassas Junction Aug 27 62, Manassas Plains Aug 28-30 2, Chantilly Sep 1-2 62, Harpers Ferry Sep 13 62, Fredericksburg VA Dec 13 62, Present Suffolk VA May 3 63, Absent sick Sharpsburg Sep 17 62, Shepards Town Sep 18 62, captured at Gettysburg, 2 July 1863; imprisoned at Fort Delaware; paroled 1865
Date of Birth: 6 February 1842	Place of Birth: Harris County, Georgia
Date of Death: 16 September 1928	Place of Death: Geneva County, Alabama
Buried: Friendship Cemetery, Geneva County, Alabama
Father: William Walker Fleming  (b 10 August 1816, Columbia County, Georgia, d 8 August 1894, Geneva County, Alabama)
Mother: Henrietta Elizabeth Dismukes (b 1 June 1815 in Georgia, d 3 December 1886 in Clintonville, Coffee County, Alabama)
Spouse(s): Anna Rebecca Poole, daughter of Matthew Harris Pool and Cordelia Turk
Children: Oscar Harris, Lula L. (Gunter), Ella Susan (Gunter), William Jr., Eugene Sanford, Marietta (Sasser), Abner P., Mattie Clyde (Sellars), Ewell A.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence(s): Clintonville, Coffee County; Friendship Community, Geneva County
Other: 1st Cousin of Benjamin Watson Fleming and George W. Fleming 1921 Census of Confederate Soldiers. "William C. D. Fleming was 19 years old when enlisted. He was a good soldier and fought well until captured at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, and was never exchanged." (Oates, The War Between the Union and the Confederacy, Appendix A)
Photographs:
Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming	E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net