William Fisher Plane

(1828 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was a teacher in Columbus, GA until 1854 when he passed the bar and began to practice as an attorney. He moved his practice to Baker County in 1858. Enrolled in Company H, 6th Georgia Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant on 27 May 1861. Elected Captain later the same day, vice Capt. Alfred H. Colquitt, who was elected Colonel.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Died of wounds in Stone House Hospital in Maryland in 1862. Originally buried "on eastern side of branch in Samuel Poffenbarger's meadow and along the line fence between Poffenbarger and Miller" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Service details from Ranger95's Roster2. Pre-war details from S. Joseph Lewis, Jr. in his introduction to Plane's Letters to his wife, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2, June, 1964. Captain Plane also has a stone at Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, GA.

Birth Date: 02/00/1828    Place of Birth: Charleston, SC
College: Emory College    Graduating Year: 1849
Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD    Burial Place: 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 4907]

2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/rosters/6th_inf_regt_rost_h.html [AotW citation 9637]

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