Samuel M. Willingham

A prosperous planter's son, in 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his parents at Hollow Square in Greene County, AL. He enlisted as a Private in Company I (later renamed D), 5th Alabama Infantry on 13 April 1861 in Greensboro, AL.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 which fractured the right side of his frontal bone. He was afterward captured there.

He was probably treated in a US Army field hospital at Boonsboro or Middletown, MD, then at Satterlee US Army General Hospital in Philadelphia, PA to 1 November 1862, and finally sent to Fort Delaware. He was paroled there on 15 December and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. We was a patient in the CS Army hospital in Charlottesville, VA from June 1863 to January 1864, then detailed as ward master there, though often on furlough. He was retired to the Invalid Corps at Selma, AL on 15 (or 12) October 1864, was surrendered at Citronelle, AL on 4 May 1865, and was paroled at Meridian, MS on 17 May.

By 1870 he was back in Hollow Square (by then in Hale County, AL), and he farmed his own place there to at least 1900. He'd finally retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; thanks to Miles Krisman for the pointer to him. Further medical details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.

He married Louisa Langham (c.1852-) in January 1868 and they had 3 children.

c. 1838 in SC