Round, William Capers

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Class of 1863
    Full name
    William Capers Round
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    0
    No. of Children
    0
    Family
    George Hopkins Round (father), Mary Louisa McCants Round (mother), George Fiske Round (brother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Military
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist
    Military
    Confederate Army

    William Capers Round (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    William C. Round was born on April 23, 1842 to Methodist minister George Hopkins Round and his wife Mary Louisa McCants Round in Newton County, Georgia where his father was serving.  He grew up in Cokesburg, South Carolina.  He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 1863 in the fall of 1860.  There, he joined his brother George Fiske Round of the class of 1861.  Like so many other young men of the time, he withdrew from Dickinson, returned home, and enlisted at Abbeville, South Carolina into Company B of the First (Orr's) Rifles in the service of the Confederate States Army in June 1861.

    He served in the CSA until his death at the Battle of Gaine's Mill in Virginia on June 27, 1862.  He is buried under the Confederate Monument in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.  He was twenty years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “William Capers Round,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/r/ed_roundWC.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Round, William Capers," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6511.