William David Tingle

An unmarried 18 year old farmer at Roanoke, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 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 wounded by a gunshot to his left leg, his tibia broken, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, and was afterward absent in hospitals and on furlough at Vernon in Troup County, GA.

In 1868 he was accused of stealing cotton but escaped from the Troup County, GA jail. In 1870 his wife and 2 small children were on their farm at Chambers Court House in Chambers County, AL, but he was an inmate of the Georgia State Penitentiary at Milledgeville, GA, and labored on the railroad. He was back on his Chambers County farm by 1880. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer back in Vernon, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the Columbuis, GA Weekly Sun of 12 May 1868, and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Liddia A. Freeman (1846-1910) and they had 10 children between 1865 and 1889.

12/1843; Troup County, GA

06/26/1924; La Grange, GA; burial in Wehadkee Baptist Church Cemetery, Abbottsford, GA