Individual Details

Married Judetta Varner. She appears as "Lizette" Poindexter in the 1860 Yadkin Co census. William was killed during the Civil War. His is buried Hollywood Cemetery (military cemetery - among the Gettysburg Dead) Richmond City, Virginia.

American Civil War Soldiers
Name: William G. Poindexter
Enlistment Date: 15 Sep 1862
Enlistment Place: Yadkin County, North Carolina
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: North Carolina
Service Record: Transferred Company G, 28th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 18 Mar 1862.
Enlisted as a Private on 15 September 1862 at the age of 28.
Enlisted in Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 15 Sep 1862.
Transferred out of Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 18 Mar 1863.

Note: In another place he was listed as William G. W. Poindexter with much of the same information.

Service Record on Fold3.com
William G. W. Poindexter, Pvt, Compsny G, 28th Regt NC Infantry (State Troops)
Muster Roll for Sept & Oct, 1862; Enlisted 18 Sep 1862, at Yadkin Co by Avery for the duration of the War.
Killed in action at Gettysburg, Pa. 3 Jul 1864
Roll of Honor. [those killed or died of disease] Entered service, Yadkin Co, Sept 18, 1862, age 29, as a conscript.
[there are a couple of cards place in this file with the name U. C. Poindexter who also died at Gettsyburg; same company, but different date]
Register of those killed of died of disease: W. G. W. Poindexter, Co. G, 28th Regt NC, died July 3, 1864. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa.

There is a letter in the file
Final Statement of W. G. W. Poindexter deceased a private of Company G 28th regiment N.C. Troops. Said W. G. W. Poindexter wos home in Yadkin county of North Carolina, was enlisted by Avery in Yadkin NC on the 18th day of September 1862 to serve for the was and was killed in action at Gettisburg Pa. 3rd Jul 1863. He was last paid by Captain D. A. Parker, Quartermaster to include the 30th day of April 1863 and is entitled to pay there from to the 3rd day of July 1863, at which time he was killed.
He is not entitled to any Bounty.
He is entitled to fifty (50) dollars communtation for clothing not drawn in line
He is indebted to the Confederate States nothing.
His personal effects were left in the Camps hands
Given near Petersburg VA this 1st day of December 1864.
I hereby certify that the above final statement is correct in every particular
G. W. McCawley, Capt.
Camp, Co. G 28th Regt. NCT

Birth	2 Aug 1835	Surry County, North Carolina
Military	1862 - 1864	Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment NC, Civil War
Death	3 Jul 1864	Died during Civil War - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Father	Robert Alexander Poindexter (1788 - 1842)
Mother	Charlott Martin (1795 - 1865)
Sibling	Miriam Poindexter (1820 - 1827)
Sibling	Robert Alexander Peter Clingman " R. C." Poindexter (1821 - 1885)
Sibling	Mary Wentworth Poindexter (1824 - 1861)
Sibling	Samuel David Lafayette Poindexter (1826 - 1845)
Sibling	Sarah Radford Poindexter (1827 - 1899)
Sibling	John A. H. Poindexter (1829 - 1912)
Sibling	Thomas C. M. Poindexter (1831 - 1862)
Sibling	Susan Hughes Poindexter (1833 - 1901)
Sibling	Pleasant Henderson Poindexter (1837 - 1913)