William Green Osborn

In 1860 he was a newly-married 27 year old farmer at Milltown in Chambers County, AL. He enlisted at Roanake, AL on 4 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was slightly wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was detailed as a Division Pioneer from 14 June 1863 to the end of the war.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Chambers Court House, AL next door to his widowed mother Cynthia, and he farmed in Chambers County to at least 1900.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 both also as William G Osburn. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married 13 year old Sarah K Moon (1846-1919) in April 1860 and they had 14 children between 1861 and 1890.

11/02/1834; Jonesboro, GA

01/18/1910; burial in Mount Zion Christian Church Cemetery, Randolph County, AL