Franklin A. Worrell

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his stepfather William Hillhouse's place at Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS. He enlisted at West Point as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.

He was left behind sick at Frederick, MD and captured there in September 1862.

He was paroled on 23 September and admitted to a CS hospital in Staunton, VA on 27 October, and was back with his Company by the end of 1862. The Battalion grew by added Companies to become the 48th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in January 1863. He was back in a hospital, sick, soon after and died of pneumonia at the CS General Hospital in Liberty (now Bedford), VA on 8 March 1863.

His brother William S Worell (Pvt., Co. B, 43rd MS Infantry) applied for his final pay in December 1863.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, also as F.A. Worrill. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

c. 1839 in AL

03/08/1863; Liberty, VA