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Confederate (CSA)

Private

General Washington Hatfield

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 30 July 1861 at Bowdon, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry. He was detailed as a wagoner/teamster from February to at least July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father William Washington Hatfield filed a claim in Carroll County, GA for his son's final pay of $125.23 in February 1863, which was paid in September 1863.

References & notes

His service from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf], as General William Hatfield, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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 33798]

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