Private William Coleman a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, mustered in at the age of 32, on April 11, 1861 into the Sixth South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, 1st Company "A", by J.T. Walker. He was later joined in service by his brother John Kennedy Coleman, after transferring to Company "F" (at a yet unknown time). The Coleman's survived and served within the war until its end and were among the soldiers who surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, on April 9, 1865. Little is known of William Coleman or his brother's lives after the war, save that they lived in South Carolina. Their occupations are unknown.