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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William R. Jenkins

(? - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured near Gettysburg, PA on 5 July 1863 and died of smallpox while a prisoner at Fort Delaware on 7 November 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

11/07/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 28501]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28502]

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