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First Name:	William	edit
Middle Name:	Martin	edit
Last Name:	Gunnels	edit
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Date of Birth:	Unknown Day, 1841	edit
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Home Town:	Laurens Court House	edit
Home State:	S.C.	edit
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Class Year:	1864	edit
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Conflict/Era:	U.S. Civil War	edit
Branch of Service:	Possibly 3rd S.C. Regiment	edit
Rank:	Lieutenant	edit

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Comments: Gunnels died of wounds from the war. He was among those alumni awarded a Special Confederate Army AB degree in 1911. Sources: GAA Alumni Records; North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, N.C. Office of Archives and History; and Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, edited by Walter Clark, 1901.

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