Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Enlisted in Company E on 22 April 1862, from Granville County.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg, and disabled thereafter.
References & notes
Basic information from Moore1. He was possibly named for (relative?) Willie Person Mangum (1792 - 1861), US Senator from Orange and Durham Counties, NC.
1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 3, pp. 307 - 313 [AotW citation 12790]