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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Washington Bates Phillips

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion on 5 August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was with his company to at least November 1864 with no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was living with his mother and 2 sisters at Starrsvile in Newton 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 1870.

He married Milissa Freeman (c. 1841-) in December 1870.

His (twin?) brother Marion was also in Company A of the Legion.

Birth

c. 1839; Newton County, 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 33880]

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