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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wiley T. Delay

(c. 1845 - c. 1865)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old farm worker living with his widowed mother Sarah and 4 siblings on their farm near Athens in Jackson County, GA. He enlisted at Athens on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 10 October 1862 and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was back with his company by December 1862, but there is no later military record for him with the Legion.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845 in GA

Death

c. 1865

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 33760]

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