DOB:  August 7, 1841 DOD:  December 12, 1907 Age at Enlistment: 19 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  1st Corporal Casualty:  None with the 1st Tennessee Comments:  William was born and raised in Williamson County.  His father died when he was a year old and his mother remarried into the Vaughan Family.  His brother, James Green Moody, also served in the Williamson Grays.  He is generally referred to as Hogan by most of his follow soldiers.  In 1850, he is living in District 5 of Williamson County, just South of Franklin.  By 1860, he is still living with the Vaughan’s in District 11 of Davidson County, working as a Carpenter’s Apprentice.  He enlisted at the Company’s formation in 1861 and was promoted to 1st Corporal on October 24, 1862 to replace Corporal Thompson who was mortally wounded at Perryville.  George Nichols states that William was one of the 1st Tennessee soldiers that helped carry off one of Huggin’s artillery pieces at the battle of Chickamauga before it was captured by the Federal Army.  In December 1863,  he was one of several 1st Tennessee soldiers who stole Artillery Horses and left to join Forrest’s Cavalry.  He enlisted in the 18th Tennessee Cavalry Company F.  While serving in the Cavalry he was wounded at Fort Pillow, Brice’s Crossroads, and Athens, AL.  At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, his friend and former 1st Tennessee soldier, George Nichols, was wounded by a shotgun blast to the face that destroyed his right eye while scouting.  The other Confederates want to leave him but Williams told them to throw George on his horse and he would ride him out.  William kept his word and George did not become a prisoner or die on the battlefield thanks to William’s actions.  William surrendered with Forrest’s Cavalry in May 1865. William married at least three times following the war and had an uncertain amount of children.  He bought Jacob Kridler’s house on modern day Highway 96 in Franklin in the early 1870’s, before moving to Nashville sometime around 1880.  It appears he owned a house in Nashville and a farm in College Grove, TN.  Below are some of the addresses he lived at based on City Directories. 1882 20 Shirley 1883 443 S. Market 1902 College Grove, TN 1903 223 Maxwell House 1906 1501 Sigler 1907 308 Marks He continued in the occupation of carpenter following the war.  He started the firms of Brannon & Moody and then Moody, Vaughan & Co., the later with his half brother.  His brother James eventually moved to Nashville to work with him.  William was a member of the Frank Cheatham Bivouac of the United Confederate Veterans and the Company B Veterans Organization. His name is on the list of Confederate soldiers that appear on the Confederate Monument in Centennial Park in Nashville.  In 1901, at the age of 69, he fathered his last child Johnnie Rebel Moody.  According to William’s Grandson, Albert Turbeville, William had discussed with his wife that no matter boy or girl he wanted to name the child Johnnie Rebel.  William passed away six years later in 1907 of General Paralysis and is buried between his second and third wife in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.  Side note:  In 2015, I was able to get William a headstone with the assistance of his grandson Albert Turbeville.  William was unmarked for 108 years in the cemetery.