William Davies Tinsley

From Baldwin County, he mustered as Private, Company H, 4th Georgia Infantry on 26 April 1861.

He was slightly wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was disabled, probably by his Sharpsburg wound, and assigned to the Quartermaster's Department, probably in Richmond, VA. He was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

Service information from Thomas1 and Henderson,2 both as W. Davis Tinsley. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list by Colonel Doles printed in The Confederate Union (Milledgeville, GA) of 14 October 1862, kindly provided by Laura Elliott. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Eight of his wartime letters are in the collection of the Georgia Department of Archives and History among the UDC bound typescripts. The US Park Service list of Appomattox parolees is online [T Names (PDF)], and has him as William Davis Tinsley.

01/12/1836

01/11/1879; burial in Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, GA