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Confederate (CSA)

Private

William Green Hayman

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a prosperous planter & county constable, in 1860 he was a 30 year old farm hand living with planter Allen Boyd and 21 slaves on the Boyd plantation near his father's in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion on 8 August. He was elected Brevet (Junior) 2nd Lieutenant by September 1862, but was not commissioned.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD on 12 October 1862.

His father Elisha filed a claim for his final pay in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, filed under Green William Hayman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

10/12/1862; Burkittsville, MD

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 33799]

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