W. T. Wofford

Confederate (CSA)

Colonel

William Tatum Wofford

(1824 - 1884)

Home State: Georgia

Education: Franklin College, Class of 1840

Command Billet: Brigade Commander

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Hood's Brigade

see his Battle Report

Before Sharpsburg

A lawyer, he served as a Volunteer Captain in the Mexican War, and then was a planter, politician, and newspaper editor. In June 1861 he was commissioned Colonel of the 18th Georgia Infantry and led them on the North Carolina and Peninsula campaigns, at Seven Pines, and at the Seven Days. He commanded Hood's "Texas" Brigade at Second Manassas.

On the Campaign

He again commanded Hood's Brigade on the Maryland Campaign.

The rest of the War

He led Cobb's Brigade of McLaws' Division at Fredericksburg after the death of Brigadier General T.R.R. Cobb, and in January 1863 he was appointed Brigadier General in his own right. He commanded his brigade at Salem Church and Gettysburg in 1863, and in 1864 the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, wounded at both, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Cedar Creek. He was then summoned by Georgia's Governor Brown to command the Department of North Georgia.

After the War

He was elected US Congressman in 1865 but was refused his seat as a former Confederate.

References & notes

His service basics here from Warner.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in Miller.2

Notes

1 Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Gray, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, pp. 343-344 [AotW citation 30450]

2 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, editor in chief, Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12, Vol. X, p. 127 [AotW citation 30451]

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