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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Gable

(1836 - 1897)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, he enlisted in Carrollton, GA on 15 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the warm and shoulder 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 field hospital in Burkittsville, MD then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 17 October for exchange and furloughed home for 30 days on 25 November 1862.

He was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 1 June 1864 and listed as absent without leave in August, with no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farm worker back in Carroll County, GA but by 1880 was farming his own place in Coweta County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann F. Driver (1840-) in May 1858 and they had 11 children.

Birth

06/17/1836 in GA

Death

03/26/1897; burial in Elim Baptist Church Cemetery, Handy, 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 33779]

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