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(c. 1829 - ?)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 31 year old farmer living at Realtown in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as First Corporal of Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was slightly wounded in the hand on 1 July 1862, probably at Malvern Hill, VA.
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 4th Sergeant to date from the battle at Sharpsburg, but "skulked out of battle at Chancellorsville" and was captured (or deserted) at Gettysburg, PA on 4 July 1863.
He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July to 18 September 1863, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and enlisted for US service as a Private in Company G, 3rd Maryland Cavalry. He stole a horse and deserted his unit about 5 January 1864, but was arrested the next day. By 4 October 1864 he was on duty "hauling logs." He transferred to Company K on 9 December 1864, then on Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay, and mustered out on 5 September 1865 at Vicksburg, MS.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate1 and Union Compiled Service Records2 online from fold3, also as Simeon Willkie, the Alabama Archives,3 and Wilmer.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His signature on military documents reads Simeon Willkie.
He married Clamanda (?, c. 1832-) and they had 3 children by 1860.
Birth
c. 1829; Lincoln County, NC
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 33028]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33030]
3 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 33029]
4 Wilmer, L. Allison, and J.H. Jarrett, George H. Vernon, State Commissioners, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Baltimore: Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co., 1898, Vol. 1, p. 774 [AotW citation 33031]