behind AotW

William Columbus Hart, a Corporal of Company E, 15th North Carolina Infantry, was captured at Crampton’s Gap in September 1862. He returned to his Company and was a Sergeant by the end of 1863, and survived a wound at Spotsylvania in 1864 to surrender with General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.

This early-war photograph of Hart was contributed to his Findagrave memorial by Sharon Shown.