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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William P. C. McKee

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm at Stone Mountain, GA. He enlisted in Atlanta, GA on 8 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father W.M. McKee filed a claim in DeKalb County for his final pay of $61.13 in October 1862. It was paid in April 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as William P McKey. Further personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in SC

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, 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 33856]

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