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His service records do not say why he was sick. They sent him home just a few days before he died.
This is from a story someone sent to me.
The day after Christmas a soldier brought word to Robert that William was seriously ill in camp at 0kolona.
Robert couldn't leave his family with the threat of a Union attack at any time and Mollie helpless, but he sent Mr. Ruffner. Two days later Ruffner returned, bringing William who was terribly weak after the long ride. Robert immediately put him to bed.
For the next week the weather was the worst the Carrigans could remember. A heavy snow fell, then the thermometer dropped below zero and the ground was frozen hard. The temperature was eight below on New Year's Day, 1864.
At Robert's house, Mollie and William were both very sick. Once William felt better and tried to go downstairs, but he collapsed from the effort and after that was worse. When Sunday, Jan. 3, dawned, Robert sent for his father and Alfred.
William died at 11 o'clock that morning. After his death, Mollie continued to grow worse. At 2:30 Monday morning -- just 15 hours after William's death -- Mollie breathed her last. William was 31 years old, Mollie 26.
The ground was frozen so hard that the slaves had to keep a bonfire going in the family plot for hours to thaw the ground before they could dig graves for William and Mollie. They were buried on Jan. 4 in almost unbearably cold weather, with the Union troops threatening their homes.
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