Nickelsville Spartan Band Roster, Company E
48th Virginia Regiment

Kilgore Fort House, Copper Creek, Scott Co. Va.
Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996

William Sevier McConnell

Rank: Capt.

1860 Census: Farm hand, Scott Co., age 20.

Enlistment: Nickelsville, Scott Co., age 21, 5th Sgt., 7/2/61

Present thru 10/15/61. Promoted 1st Lt. After 4/30/62 but by 2/21/63 when present comdg. Company. Present comdg. Company 3/5/63 thru 3/3/28/63. Promoted capt. By 10/63 when present. Commanded regt. Skirmishers, Payne's Farm, 11/27/63. Present thru 3/31/64. Captured Spotsylvania C.H. 5/12/64. POW Point Lookout 5/14/64 to 6/23/64. POW F. Delaware 6/25/64 to 8/20/64 when sent to Hilton Head, S.C. POW Morris Island, S.C., under CSA fire 9/17/64 to 10/21/64. POW F. Pulaski, Ga., 10/21/64 thru 12/16/64. Arrived Ft. Delaware from Hilton Head 3/12/65. POW Ft. Delaware to 6/16/65 when took oath and released. 5'9", dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes in 1865.

According to Wayne McConnell of Gate City, VA, William S. McConnell married Lucy Louisa Compton on January 15, 1866. They had three children.

William is buried on a hill southwest of his father's (Samuel Richie McConnell) old log house in Scott County. Efforts have been made to preserve this site of the last resting place of this member of the "Immortal 600". The "Immortal 600" was a group of Confederate officers who, while prisoners of war, were held under Confederate fire at Battery Wagner, Morris Island, Charleston Harbor from September 17, 1864 to October 21, 1864.

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