William Franklin Spillers

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer at Dublin in the Greenville District, SC. He enlisted there on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

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

He returned to duty about June 1863. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left ankle at Knoxville, TN, and captured at Loudon, TN on 23 October 1863. He was in a hospital in Chattanooga, TN from 26 December to 15 February 1864, briefly in a hospital in Nashville, TN, then sent to the US Military Prison at Louisville, KY on the 20th. He was transferred to Camp Chase, OH on 29 February and sent on to Fort Delaware on 14 March, arriving on 17 March. He died there of "Inflam[ation] of Lungs" on 30 April 1864.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Elizabeth Cox (1835-1887) and they had two children (b. 1858, 1861).

c. 1839 in SC

04/30/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ