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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Baskin Stripling

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of prosperous farmer, clergyman, and slaveowner James Stripling (1808-1867), in 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer at Hickory Level in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Carrollton, GA on 20 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Phoebe Elizabeth "Lizzie" Adams (later Dempsey, 1839-1885) in March 1858 and they had 2 sons.

Birth

02/11/1839; Carroll County, GA

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 33907]

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