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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

William Denson Conyers, Jr.

(1838 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy physician and planter (and namesake of Conyers, GA), he enrolled at Covington, Newton County, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August. He was promoted to Captain on 14 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the chest in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps hospital in Burkittsville, MD, then was sent from Baltimore, MD to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 11 October. He was home on furlough in November, but back with his company by the end of the year. He was promoted to Major on 15 April 1864 (to date from 3 July 1863) and was killed in action on his 26th birthday, 12 May 1864, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.

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.

He married Virginia C. Bates (1842-1920) in June 1861 and they had a daughter Rebecca.

Birth

05/12/1838; Newton County, GA

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Conyers Cemetery, Covington, GA

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 33752]

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