William Henry Battey

(1820 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 38th Georgia Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
By 1860 he was a very prosperous farmer in Jefferson County, Georgia.1 Captain of Company G (the "Battey Guards") at its organization on 1 October 1861, he had become commander of the Regiment at Gaines' Mill in June 1862 after all the more senior officers were killed or wounded.2

In the Antietam Campaign:
Captain Battey was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September while in command of the Regiment.

Birth Date: 09/25/1820 Place of Birth: Louisville, Jefferson County, GA
Death Date: 09/17/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US Census Bureau, and USGenWeb volunteers, transcribers, USGenWeb Census Project, Published 1998-, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.us-census.org/>, Source page: Jefferson County, GA, 1860 [AotW citation 258]

2 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, Vol. 11/Part2 (Ser #13), pp. 603-604 [AotW citation 257]

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