Willis N. Hawkins

Age 18, he mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 26 May 1861. He transferred to Company A of the 12th Mississippi Infantry on 1 July 1862.

He was initially listed as missing, but was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September 1862. He deserted to the enemy at Petersburg, VA on 25 January 1865, took an oath of allegiance at Knoxville, TN on 17 March 1865, giving his home as Davison County, TN, and was sent to Chattanooga then on to Louisville, KY. He was released on 28 March with instructions to "remain north of the Ohio River during the war."

By 1880 he was living with his father-in-law at Forrest Hill in Hinds County, MS. In 1900 he was a machinist in Choctaw County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg status on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900.

He married Martha V Cook (1845-) in January 1872 and they had 3 children. He married again, Ida F Ward (1868-1934) in December 1899.

06/1842; Nashville, TN