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Confederate (CSA)

Private

William N. Felton

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.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a US Army field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, date not given, and was buried there.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as William A Felton, and Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf].

Death

Date not known; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 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 33771]

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