site logo
[no picture yet]

[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Wilkerson

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry on 9 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sick with smallpox from 25 December 1863 to 3 April 1864, and died of pneumonia at Orange Court House, VA on 17 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Wilkinson, and from Henderson.2

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 28624]

2   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 28625]