Henry Whitfield

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their small place at Parks Creek in Banks County, GA. He enlisted in Banks County on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry. He was slightly wounded, in the head, at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

He was wounded again, in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Lynchburg, VA by November 1862. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA for a gunshot wound on 3 August 1863, date and place of wounding not given. He was furloughed home on 15 August and transferred to Company B of the 3rd Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters to date from 8 June. He was listed as absent without leave from about September 1863 to February 1865 with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Benton in Saline County, AR.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Caroline Murray (1839-1905) in August 1866 in Banks County and they had 4 children. She filed a pension application from Corwin, AR in 1901 based on his Confederate service.

08/19/1843; Habersham County, GA

12/02/1873; Saline County, AR; burial in Mars Hill Cemetery, Benton, AR