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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William T. M. White

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents, 3 siblings, and 4 slaves on their farm near Athens in Clarke County, GA. He enlisted in Athens on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a private in Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was appointed 3rd Corporal in 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshots to both thighs and one hand 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 and, from 16 to 28 November, in the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD. He was transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange, and was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 4 December. He was furloughed home on 19 December 1862 and returned on 14 February 1863. He was admitted to the CS hospital in Staunton, VA on 11 August 1863 with an abscess, and was said to be "improving" by the end of that month. He was back in a Richmond hospital on 10 October and furloughed for another 60 days. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant by May 1864 but was retired to the Invalid Corps on 16 July 1864.

He was captured and paroled at Athens, GA on 8 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also on the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in 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 33925]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #s 1.543, 1.307 [AotW citation 33926]

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