McFall, William

During the Civil War, William McFall and his brother James M. McFall were members of a South Carolina regiment, known as the Palmetto Sharp Shooters. Two other brothers Waddy McFall and Colonel John McFall, were also in Confederate service but their units are not known. The Palmetto Sharp Shooters served in the Army of Northern Virginia under Longstreet (Jenkins's, later Bratton's Brigade). They were in the Seven Days Battle, Fredericksburg, the Suffolk, Virginia campaign of April 1863 (they missed Gettysburg), the Knoxville campaign of November-December 1863, and the Wilderness-Spottsylvania campaign. They spent the last winter of the war near Petersburg, Virginia. Also a member of the Palmetto Sharp Shooters (formerly of the 4th South Carolina Regiment) was Major William Anderson, husband of Lucretia ("Creek") McFall Anderson, the sister to whom most of the letters were written. Major Anderson was killed in the Seven Days Battle. The McFalls lived in or near Anderson, South Carolina., where they owned a flour mill and a corn mill. They also owned land and slaves in Georgia. They seem to have belonged to the small planter class and apparently had a sufficiency of food and clothing all during the war.