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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Imandrew Jackson Wiggins

(c. 1835 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 December 1862. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 17 May to 18 September 1864, when he sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Howard's Grove General hospital in Richmond, VA on 24 September and died there of chronic diarrhea on 20 or 21 October 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Imanda J. Wiggins, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Imandra J. Wiggins. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

His brother McAllen was also in Company K.

Birth

c. 1835; Newton County, GA

Death

10/21/1864; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 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 33005]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 33006]

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