McAllen Batts Wiggins

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot and captured near Yorktown, VA in May 1862 and in the Chesapeake US Army Hospital at Fortress Monroe, VA by 12 May. He was transferred (where?) on 12 July and exchanged to return to duty about 5 August.

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

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital on 19 November and furloughed home for 30 days on 6 December 1862. He was wounded again - bruised in the left side - at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and admitted to a hospital in Richmond on 13 July. He was in and out of various hospitals to 5 December 1863, when he was furloughed home for 30 days. He was wounded yet again, by a gunshot at Davis' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864. He was furloughed home from the Stuart Hospital in Richmond on 6 September for 40 days with no later military record.

In 1870 he was again a farmer in Randolph County, AL but by 1880 was farming in Polk County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Mc B. and M. B. Wiggins, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Mac B. Wiggins. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Elizabeth Marbut (1842-1907) in December 1856 and they had 11 children.

His brother Imandrew was also in Company K.

03/27/1833; Newton County, GA

01/25/1899; Etna, GA; burial in Jackson Chapel Cemetery, Cedartown, GA