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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wiley J. Heflin

(1844 - 1916)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old on his parent's small farm at Griffin in Spalding County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on furlough from 27 September 1862 to 7 February 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer at McDonough, Henry County, GA. In 1900 he was a clerk for a freight company in Birmingham, AL, and was clerking in a railroad shop there in 1910.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jenie Ann “Linna” Bloodworth (1841-1911) and they had 5 children between 1868 and 1879.

Birth

07/16/1844 in GA

Death

05/16/1916; Birmingham, AL; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, AL

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 28469]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28470]

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