George Wesley Wilbanks

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farmhand living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small place at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 7 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer on his own place at Concord/Nixburg in Coosa County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a heavily-retouched photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by Saralee Talbot Garner in 2022.

He married Mary Susan Gilliland (1847-1873) in December 1867 and they had 3 children. He married again, (her cousin?) Martha Ann Elizabeth Gilliland (1849-1912) and they had at least 8 children between 1878 and about 1888.

12/23/1843 in GA

06/15/1911; Nixburg, AL; burial in Rehobeth Cemetery, Nixburg, AL