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W.G. Dekle
(1832 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was "the youngest son of [the first] Thomas County Sheriff William Grissom Dekle (1796-1841) and Bethany Hollingsworth." He enrolled in Bainbridge, GA on 4 March 1862 and mustered as Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant in Company F of the 50th Georgia Infantry. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 29 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His brother George filed a claim for his final pay in December 1862.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His birth and family information, and the photograph are from Jay Shiver of the Thomas County Historical Society & Museum of History. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Susan Elizabeth Donaldson (1832-1911) in June 1853 and they had 2 children. Susan married again, in 1869, another Maryland Campaign veteran, Theodore N Billett - she was widowed for the second time at his death in 1898.
Birth
04/01/1832; Thomas County, GA
Death
09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2959]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34548]