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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William F. Atkins

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

One of 10 children of farmers David Zacharias and Elizabeth Wiggins Atkins, in 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker on John and Hester Kenady/Kennedy's place at Louisvile in Jefferson County, GA. He enlisted there on on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as W.F. Atkins. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as W.F. Adkins. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

He married Emily F. Gray (1843-1908) in November 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Washington County, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19618]

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 31805]

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