George Washington Digby

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer near Fulton in Itawamba County, MS. He enrolled at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

He was accidentally wounded in Maryland on 7 September 1862.

He was in hospitals in Staunton and Richmond, VA and furloughed for 60 days on 31 October 1862.

His Company (K) was converted to cavalry and attached as Company F to the 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2d Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) in January 1863, but he was listed as absent sick, and probably never rejoined his unit.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer or farm worker in Itawamba County. In 1910 he was farming in Auburn, Lee County, MS at age 73.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry and 2nd CS Cavalry, also as G.W. Digsby. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Jane Ford (1837-c. 1885) in September 1859 and they had 3 children. He married again, Nancy E Martin (1843-1898) in February 1885.

03/1837; Bibb County, AL

11/27/1918; burial in Harden's Chapel Cemetery, Itawamba County, MS