Valentine Tilley

In 1860 he was a 36 year old farmer in Burke County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.

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

He was sent to a Richmond, VA hospital, sick with scurvy, in June 1863 and was furloughed home on 30 September for 30 days. He was absent sick again with scorbutus (scurvy) from February to April 1864, and with varicose veins in May. He was detailed by a medical board as a nurse to the Jackson Hospital in Richmond by July 1864 and was captured there on 3 April 1865. He left the hospital "without permission" on 4 May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker in Burke County living alone with Absalom Shumake and his wife Susan and in 1880 he was an overseer, probably on the Berrien Bell farm, in Burke County. By 1900 he was farming his own place in Screven County.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His wound on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Martha (?, 1822-bef. 1860) and they had 2 sons. He married again Elizabeth (?, 1844-) about 1875 and they had 2 children. He married, third, Agnes (?) and they had a son Simeon Valentine Tilley (1885-1959).

02/1824 in GA