William Eason

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 8 brothers on their small farm near Bowdon in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry, but was discharged for disability on 21 October. He reenlisted in Bowdon on 1 August 1862 and rejoined his company.

He was left behind, sick, at Urbanna, MD in September 1862 and captured there.

He was paroled on 5 October in Pleasant Valley, MD, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 17 October for exchange. He was ill in a Richmond, VA hospital from 24 October to 14 November 1862.

He was wounded by gunshots to his left leg and shoulder at Chancellorsville. VA on 3 May 1863, in a Richmond hospital by 27 May, and sent home on furlough for 40 days on 10 June. He was on detail as a nurse in a hospital in Newnan, GA in November and December 1863 and sick with pneumonia in hospitals in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA in April and May 1864.

He was captured again, at Front Royal, VA on 16 August 1864, held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 28 August, then sent to the military prison at Elmira, NY. He was paroled there for exchange on 11 October 1864 and sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was finally received at Venus Point on the Savannah River and exchanged on 15 November.

By 1880 he was a farmer on his own place at Bowdon, GA, then with 9 children - 7 sons and 2 daughters - ages 4 months to 16 years.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rachel Minerva Johnson (1841-1911) in July 1863 and they had 9 children.

1840; Coweta County, GA

06/12/1880; burial in Indian Creek Cemetery, Bowdon, GA