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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David W. Wilson

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Baker County, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861. He was appointed Regimental Musician, data not given. He was wounded at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was surrendered at Tallahassee, FL on 10 May 1865 and paroled at Bainbridge, GA on the 20th.

References & notes

Service information from Henderson.1 His Sharpsburg status from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862.

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 816  [AotW citation 21187]