Grouping of William W. Waller 1/6th Ambrotype with Bowie, CDV and Documents

This is an important archive of William W. Waller who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War with pertinent documents regarding Waller's service and three original documents relating his oath of allegiance to the Union and pardon immediately after the end of the war. It also includes war time photographs of Waller in his Confederate Uniform and in civilian attire. These artifacts all came from a Montgomery, Alabama estate and have stayed together since they were created in the 1860's.
 
William W. Waller was born on August 23"*, 1815 in Georgia and died on September 22*, 1880 in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a land owner in Montgomery County with a farm manager pre-war. He married Elizabeth Ann Loftin in 1847 who died in childbirth on October 27*, 1849. Waller married again to Margaret A. Stout on March 17th, 1852 in Dallas, Alabama, she then moved with him to Montgomery. By 1860, William Waller was a banker in Montgomery and later joined Company C of the Third Battalion Alabama Reserves, after the war broke out. The 3"° Alabama Infantry consisted of nine regular regiments and three battalions of reserves made up of men principally from Autauga, Coosa, Lowndes, Macon, Mobile and Montgomery Counties. Two battalions of the reserves were made up of older men who served in the defense of Mobile. Late in the war he was captured and appears on a Roll of prisoners of War. Post-war, in 1870, Waller owned a dry- goods store and by 1880 became ill with "consumption" (tuberculosis) and died shortly thereafter. He is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama.