William Jasper Coggin

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm worker on his parent's place near Zebulon in Pike County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862 at Zebulon.

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA from 23 to 27 September, then on furlough to 19 October. He was captured at Waterloo, MD on South Mountain on 5 July 1863 on the retreat from Gettysburg. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore then on to Fort Delaware on 9 July. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD in October 1863 and exchanged there on 18 February 1865. He was furloughed from Camp Lee near Richmond, VA as a paroled prisoner on 20 February 1865 with no later military record.

In 1870 he was back working on his parent's farm, but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer on his own place at Williamson in Pike County.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as W.J. Coggin. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Savannah Weekly Republican of 4 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lavonia Palestine “Pallie” Carson (1845-1930) in December 1868 and they had 9 children.

04/21/1836; Pike County, GA

06/09/1906; burial in Coggin Cemetery, Pike County, GA