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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William R. Shirley

"Billy"

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old factory operative living with farmer Zepheniah Blackston and his family at McBean in Richmond County, GA. He enlisted in the Richmond Factory section of Augusta on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, slightly, at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863. He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July by a gunshot to his knee, and was captured at Williamsport, MD on 8 July. He was admitted to the Seminary Hospital in Hagerstown, MD and died there on 18 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from Henderson,1 who says he was killed outright at Gettysburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

07/18/1863; Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 32027]

2 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 32028]

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