Jeremiah Wilcher, Jr.

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer on his recently widowed mother Ruth's plantation (with more than 35 slaves) at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 4th Sergeant of Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 17 January 1863 for exchange. He was admitted to a CS hospital in Petersburg, VA on 26 January and furloughed home for 60 days on 22 March. He was reduced to Private by April, probably due to prolonged absence.

He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and was disabled to at least September 1863. Still not well enough for field duty, he was on detail to the Provost Guard in Staunton, VA from March 1864 until he returned to his Company in December. He was captured at Amelia Court House, VA on 6 April 1865, sent to Point Lookout, MD on 14 April, and released after taking an oath of allegiance there on 22 June 1865.

In 1870 he was again a farmer and lived with his mother and older brother William, a retired lawyer, at Gibson, GA.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Additional Sharpsburg wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as James Welcher, Company E. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He probably never married, and left considerable property [will text] to his brother Julius Caesar Augustus Wilcher (1837-1912) at his death in (May?) 1873.

c. 1834 in GA

1873; in GA; burial in Euphrates Baptist Church Cemetery, Edgehill, GA