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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William M. Parker

(c. 1837 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 24, he enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hip 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. By February 1863 he was in a hospital in Richmond, VA. He was back on duty from February to at least August 1863 with no later military record with the Legion.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf].

Birth

c. 1837 in GA

Death

Date not known; Bowdon, 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 33876]

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