Gilbert Dulaney

In 1860 he was a 17 year old worker on his parent's farm at Pleasanton in Itawamba County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was sick in a hospitals in Richmond and Scottsville, VA by November and furloughed on 17 April 1863. Company K was converted to cavalry and attached as Company F to the 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2d Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) in January 1863 and he joined them by December 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Hillsboro, NC on 3 May 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1920 he was a farmer near Fulton in Itawamba County.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry and 2nd CS Cavalry, both as Gilbert Dulany. His presence at Sharpsburg from a petition he and others of his Company signed on behalf of Lieutenant Thomas Lipscomb. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Graham (1847-1919) in February 1868 and they had 3 daughters.

His brother Bill was also at Sharpsburg with him, and brother Henry (1829-1880) was also in Company K, but was absent, sick, in September 1862.

03/06/1843; Itawamba County, MS

05/24/1926; Itawamba County, MS; burial in Mount Pleasant Baptist Cemetery, Fulton, MS