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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Dingler

(1841 - 1904)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 53rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his widowed mother's place at Erin in Spalding County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 53rd Georgia Infantry on 30 April 1862 at Haralson, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was absent sick in hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA or on furlough after 25 September 1862. He was discharged for disability from lung disease at Lynchburg, VA on 18 April 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Line Creek in Spalding County.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Maynard (1841-1900) in November 1860 in Spalding County, and they had 4 children.

Birth

08/30/1841; Spalding County, GA

Death

06/04/1904; Carroll County, GA; burial in Pleasant View Baptist Church Cemetery, Carrollton, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 27384]

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 27385]

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