William Henry Morton

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his parent's place at Athens in Clarke County, GA. Known by Henry, he enlisted there on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Georgia Infantry on 4 May in Augusta, GA.

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

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 September 1862 with no later record with the 3rd Infantry.

He enrolled for local defense service in Captain J.C. Turner's 6th Company, 3rd Regiment of Cavalry, Georgia State Guards in Watkinsville, GA on 4 August 1863 and was First Sergeant by January 1864, the last record with that unit.

In 1870 he was back on his parent's farm at Athens. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he farmed his own place in the Puryear's District, Clarke County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a piece in the Athens Southern Banner of 1 October 1862, thanks to Laura Elliott. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Cora Frazer (1849-1877) in June 1871 and they had 4 children. He married again, Cornelia L. Powell (1849-1925) in March 1880 and they had at least 2 sons.

10/27/1840; Athens, GA

08/01/1913; Clarke County, GA; burial in Morton Family Cemetery, Clarke County, GA