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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Green D. Willis

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry on 5 May 1862 at Savanah, GA.

On the Campaign

He was captured in Maryland (on South Mountain?) on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a US Army hospital in Philadelphia with pleuritis to 29 October, briefly at the Provost Barracks there, then a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 15 December 1862, when he was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was captured again, at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD until 15 March 1865. He was received at Boulware & Cox's Wharves, James River, VA for exchange on 18 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Wilkinson, and from Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Charles Green Willis.

He married Almira Avirett (1) in February 1866 and they had a daughter Viola.

Birth

c. 1845; Blakely, GA

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 28626]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28627]

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