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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wiley Wesley Works

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Fulton in Itawamba County, MS. He enlisted at Columbus, MS as a Private in Company K, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, also as Wiley W. Woorks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 (says born c. 1832) and 1860 (says born GA).

He married Sarah B. Brown (1837-) in September 1857 and they had 2 children.

Birth

c. 1836 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29046]

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