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(c. 1825 - 1869)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a prosperous 35 year old shoe merchant who owned 14 slaves and lived at Thomson in Columbia County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company K, 48th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded at Mechanicsville, VA on 26 June 1862 and was sent home on 30 days' furlough on 1 July.
On the Campaign
He was "dangerously" wounded in the arm and shoulder at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent on furlough and was promoted to Captain on 13 April 1863, though he never returned to his company. By the end of the 1863 he was listed as absent without leave. As of 29 November 1864 he had applied for retirement as permanently disabled, but had no reply.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 who says he was wounded and disabled at Gettysburg, and has him as David P. Wilson, 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 family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1825 in GA
Death
07/14/1869; burial in Wilson Family Cemetery, Thomson, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 32031]
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 32032]