William P. Bolin

About 19 years old, he enlisted and mustered at Bowdon in Carroll County, GA on 30 July 1861 as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

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

He was held at Fort Delaware, sent to Aikens Landing on 2 October, and formally exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant, date not found, and was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg (probably at Gettysburg, PA) in July 1863 and his leg was amputated. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA into August, and afterward on furlough home. He was last paid in Atlanta, GA in April 1864 and formally retired due to disability on 1 November 1864.

At his death in 1877 he was a watchman in a cemetery, and lived with his widowed mother Salina L Bolin (1823-after 1888) at 289 West Fair Street in Atlanta, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, and Sholes' Atlanta City Directory for 1877. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1842 in GA

09/17/1877; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA