Sylvanus Collins Wilkie

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old operative, probably in a cotton mill, living with his recently widowed mother and 3 older sisters in Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was captured at Williamsburg, VA on 6 May 1862 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until 5 August, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA and exchanged there. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 August, but "deserted" on 6 September to return to his unit.

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 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July to 8 October 1863, when he died there of disease.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, as Sylvanus C. Willkie, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Sylvanius C. Wilkie. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1842 in GA

10/08/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ