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D.H.G. Wardlaw
(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old overseer in Gwinnett County, GA. He enlisted at Lawrenceville on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 24th Georgia Infantry on 3 October. He was detailed to the Quartermaster's Department as a teamster in July and August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the head and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 1 October 1862 in the US Sixth Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD.
His widow Minerva filed for his final pay on 27 December 1862.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His picture from a group photograph with his brothers William and Samuel, posted to Findagrave by Dianne Wardlaw. All three were members of Company F - the Gwinnett Independent Blues - 24th Georgia Infantry; none survived the War.
He married Minerva (?; c. 1847-) and they had a son, David, in 1860.
Birth
c. 1837; Gwinnett County, GA
Death
10/01/1862; Burkittsville, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19472]
2 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 30865]