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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William J. Brittain

(c. 1839 - 1865)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a farm worker, in 1860 he was a 22 year old farm laborer living with his parents and 6 younger siblings near Bascobal in Jackson County, GA. He enlisted at Athens in Clark County, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was home on wounded furlough to at least December 1862. He was captured near Front Royal, VA on 16 August 1864, briefly held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, and sent to the prison at Elmira, NY on 28 August. He died there of pneumonia on 2 March 1865.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1839 in GA

Death

03/02/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY

Notes

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 33719]

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