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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Jackson Orr

(1840 - 1910)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old apprentice tinner (tinsmith) living with 4 other young craftsmen in Madison, Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was home on wounded furlough from 27 October to 15 December 1862. He was captured near Knoxville, TN on 3 December 1863 and sent from the prison at Louisville, KY to Rock Island, IL on 31 December, arriving there on 6 January 1864. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 19 June 1865 and was released.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a tinner back in Madison, GA. In 1900, then going by Richard, he was a farmer in Morgan 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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sara Angelena Few (1853-1940) in December 1875 and they had 7 children.

Birth

09/1840 in GA

Death

1910; Morgan County, GA; burial in Madison Historic Cemeteries, Madison, 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 33875]

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