Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 11/1/1862 at Camp Tattnall, FL as a Private.
On 11/1/1862 he mustered as a substitute into "C" Co. FL 3rd Battn Cavalry
He was transferred out on 9/24/1863
On 9/24/1863 he transferred into "E" Co. CS 15th Cavalry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* AWOL (date and place not stated)

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Biographical Rosters of Florida's Soldiers 1861-1865

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William Baracastle, Private, Captain N. R. Leigh's Independent Company (C), Detachment Florida Cavalry,* enlisted November 1, 1862 at Camp Tattnall, Fla. by Capt. Leigh for 3 years, substitute for R. H. Johnson, received $50 bounty pay December 23, 1862, recorded on August 31, 1863 as absent, absent without leave at home sick, no further records

* This company was formed about September 19, 1861, as Captain E. S. Amos' Company, Florida Cavalry, and was assigned to the 36th Regiment Georgia Infantry (subsequently the 1st Regiment Confederate Infantry). The company resumed its independent organization about March, 1862, was re-organized May 6, 1862, as Captain Leigh's Independent Company Florida Cavalry, and subsequently became Company C, 3rd Battalion Florida Cavalry.

The 3rd (also known as Myer's) Battalion Florida Cavalry was organized about May 11, 1863, with three companies, A to C, Company D being assigned some time prior to August 31, 1863. It was consolidated with Murphy's Battalion, Alabama Cavalry, Captains Arrington's and Barlow's Companies, Alabama Cavalry, and Captain Smith's Company, Florida Cavalry, about September, 1863, to form the 15th Regiment Confederate Cavalry, this company becoming Company E of the regiment.

M251: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Florida

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William Baracastle, Private, Company E, Confederate Regiment Cavalry,** enlisted November 1, 1862 by Capt. Leigh for 3 years, recorded September 12, 1863 as absent, absent without leave, at home sick, subsequently recorded as absent "since about" July 15, 1863, recorded at the end of the year as absent sick at home, last recorded present June 30, 1864, no further records

Note: There are no subsequent muster rolls for Company E which precludes knowledge of his subsequent service

** This company was formerly Company C, 3rd Battalion Florida Cavalry. It subsequently became Company E, 15th Regiment Confederate Cavalry.

M258: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government.

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Record of Events, Company C, 3rd Cavalry Battalion, Florida Volunteers

Stationed at camp, Florida Cavalry, March 1-June 30, 1862.
May 6.— The company reorganized on May 6, 1862, reenlisting
for three years or the war and electing new officers. By order of
Colonel [John Roger Fenwick] Tatnall, Captain E. S. Amos and
First Lieutenant J. R. Mims were relieved of their respective
commands and the newly elected officers assigned to their com-
mands.

Stationed at Camp Tatnall, Florida, July 1-October 31, 1862.

Stationed at Camp Tatnall, west Florida, November-December
1862.

Stationed at Camp Lomax, west Florida, January-February 1863.

Stationed at Camp Lomax, Florida, December 31, 1862-April 30,
1863.

Stationed at Mobile, Alabama, April 30-August 31, 1863.

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Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry

NOVEMBER 9, 1863.--Skirmish near Bayou Sara, La.

Report of Col. Henry Maury, Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry,

MOBILE, ALA.,
November 12, 1863.
The following dispatch from Tunica, Miss., was received yesterday
dated 10th instant, from Col. Henry Maury, Fifteenth [Confederate]
Cavalry Regiment:

We dashed in yesterday above Bayou Sara on a plundering party of
Yankees, 300 strong; drove them to their iron-clads, with great
slaughter. We brought off their wagon train and 25 prisoners from under
the broadsides of their gunboats. Only 3 wounded of ours.

DABNEY H. MAURY,
Maj.-Gen.

Gen. S. COOPER.

Source: Official Records
PAGE 452-41 W. FLA., S. ALA., S. MISS., LA., TEX., N. MEX. [CHAP. XXXVIII.
[Series I. Vol. 26. Part I, Reports & Union Correspondence. Serial No. 41.]

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Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry Regiment

The 15th Confederate Cavalry was organized in early 1864 at Mobile, and it was composed of Alabama and Florida companies which had been on coastal defense duties for two or three years. Placed under the command of Col. Henry Maury, it remained in the vicinity of Mobile and Pensacola for most of 1864, except for a period in the fall when it was sent to Louisiana to play a roll in the fight at Tunica. It served successively in Jenifer's, Reynolds', Patton's, McCulloch's, and Clanton's brigades, Maury's army. It was early described as "full, well mounted and well armed", but by December, it was reported as poorly clad and scantily fed." Then in January 1865, its ranks were filled with citizens from Mobile and the surrounding area, armed with miscellaneous weapons but numbering 1200 men. By February, its numbers were reduced to 800, but its companies were almost always on detached duty, watching and checking for an enemy advance against Mobile. In April 1865, it was sent to establish a courier line to Demopolis, but before this was done, the regiment took part in a disastrous fight at Claiborne where it blew up the magazine and evacuated Choctaw Bluff on the 14th of the month. The greater part of the regiment disbanded, and the few who remained were paroled at Demopolis. Col. Henry Maury was disabled by a wound just before the close of the war and the regiment was commanded by Lt. Col. Myers at Claiborne.

Field and Staff Officers: Col. Harry Maury (Mobile); Lt. Col. Thomas J. Myers (Florida); Major: Robert Partridge (Florida); Adjutant William R. Jordan (Florida)

Captains, and Counties from Which the Companies Came:
Mobile -- John H. Marshall (wounded, captured, Mississippi City)
Mobile -- William Cottrill (resigned); E. T. Arrington
Mobile -- J. E. Murrell
Baldwin -- T. C. Barlow
Choctaw -- John McKellar
Five companies from Florida
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