William Edwin Sutton

Son of a clerk, in 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings at Albany, Dougherty County, GA. He enlisted there on 10 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Cavalry.

He was captured in action at the Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862.

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 (or 6) October and formally declared exchanged on 10 November. He was back with his company by December 1862. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 1 January 1864 and Sergeant Major of the Battalion on 1 September 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 1 May 1865.

By 1870 he was farming back in Albany, GA and in 1880 he was a bookkeeper there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Harriet Bey Mesic's Cobb's Legion Cavalry (2009). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances "Fannie" Shackelford (1848-1915) in January 1867 and they had at least 3 children.

12/26/1845; Albany, GA

01/10/1893; Brunswick, GA; burial in Oakview Cemetery, Albany, GA