[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Esler

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company L, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 19 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged in October 1862 and was in hospitals, sick, for much of 1863, 1864, and into January 1865. There is no further military record.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1

Birth

c. 1838 in IRELAND

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /page10.html [AotW citation 21984]

« Search for another Person