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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Wiley Sanford Enis

(1836 - 1920)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as 3rd Sergeant of Company A, 26th Alabama Infantry about October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Chancellorsville VA on 3 May 1863 and exchanged a week later. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant and wounded again, at Peachtree Creek, GA on 20 July 1864.

After the War

By 1880 he was teaching school in Holland, Saline County, Arkansas but was a farmer in Yell County in 1900, and farming with his son Mallice in Scott County in 1910.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910.

He married Louticia "Lou" Davis (1854-) in about 1872 and they had 11 children.

Birth

1836; Fayette County, AL

Death

1920; Oklahoma City, OK

Notes

1   Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_a.html  [AotW citation 25486]