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Confederate (CSV)

Major

William Tully Choice Graybill

(1821 - 1883)

Home State: Georgia

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known as Tully, in the decade or more before the War he was a physician practicing in Washington County, Georgia. 1,2

In September 1861 he was appointed Captain, Company A of the 28th Georgia Infantry, and he was elected Major of the Regiment on 3 May 1862. He was captured in action at Seven Pines (VA) on 31 May 1862, but exchanged and returned to duty with the Regiment on 1 September.3

On the Campaign

He was in command as senior officer present, on the Maryland Campaign, and was wounded in action on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Colonel of the Regiment in March 1863 (to rank from 3 November 1862), and led the Regiment at Chancellorsville, Olustee, the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, and at Petersburg. 3,4

Pension records show he'd been hospitalized with chronic dysentery, and then home, too ill for service, from November 1864 to the end of the War. He may never have fully recovered.5

References & notes

His gravesite is on Findagrave. His full name from family genealogists.

Birth

06/02/1821; Hancock County, GA

Death

10/02/1883; Sandersville, GA; burial in Moye Cemetery, Washington County, GA

Notes

1   1850 Federal census - Washington County, Georgia
US Census Bureau, and USGenWeb volunteers, transcribers, USGenWeb Census Project, Published 1998-, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.us-census.org/>, Source page: www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/ga/washington/1850/pg0215a.txt  [AotW citation 531]

2   1860 Federal census - Washington County, Georgia
US Census Bureau, and USGenWeb volunteers, transcribers, USGenWeb Census Project, Published 1998-, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.us-census.org/>, Source page: www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/ga/washington/1860/pg00201.txt  [AotW citation 532]

3   Pollette, Ash, transcriber, and USGenWeb Archives, Roster and Service Information, Company A, 28th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, first accessed 01 March 2006, <http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/washington/military/civilwar/rosters/a28.txt>  [AotW citation 533]

4   US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Series 1, Vol 36, Part 3, pg. 842  [AotW citation 534]

5   Letters and affadvits accompanying a 1914 pension application.
State of Georgia, and David W. Carmicheal, Director, Georgia Archives, Published c. 2001, first accessed 01 January 2003, <http://www.georgiaarchives.org/>, Source page: /what_do_we_have/online_records/pensions/searchKeywords.aspx  [AotW citation 535]