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Confederate (CSV)

Private

G. B. Wilson

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, he enlisted at Lancaster Court House, SC on 8 April 1861, and mustered on 22 May as a Private in Company H, 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left side and forearm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 15 October, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore the next day, paroled there, and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 18 October for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 23 October and furloughed home for 60 days on 2 November. He was back in a Richmond hospital in April 1863 and again furloughed, with no later military. record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also on the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1840

Notes

1 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 32281]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: Patient #1.079 [AotW citation 32282]

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