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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William Newton Mayfield

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

A clergyman's son, in 1860 he was a 20 year old clerk living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 7 slaves at Conyers in Newton County, GA. He enlisted at Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was promoted to 4th Corporal by November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded, his leg broken, in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, but died there of his wounds on 13 October 1862.

His father Stephen filed a claim for his final pay of $83.00 in January 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

07/14/1839; Newton County, GA

Death

10/13/1862; 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 33854]

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