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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John J. McWilliams

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living with his parents and 6 siblings on their farm in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD but died there of wounds on 28 October 1862 and buried nearby.

His father Alex filed a claim for his final pay in February 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother George was also wounded at Crampton's Gap and died in Burkittsville, MD.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/28/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4506]

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 33860]

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