William H. Whitley

In 1860 he was a 23 (28) year old overseer on the Samuel Broadnax plantation (18 slaves) at Oxford in Newton County, GA. He enlisted in Covington, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company A of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was "left with the wounded" at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 7 December 1862 (or 20 January 1863), then sent to Fortress Monroe for exchange. He was wounded by a piece of shell at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and lost the forefinger of his left hand. He was wounded again, on 6 May 1864 by a gunshot to his left leg and was sent from Walnut Grove in Walton County, GA to a hospital in Farmville, VA in July with complications from that wound. He was furloughed home for 60 days on 5 August 1864. He was captured again, at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and a prisoner at Newport News, VA until 25 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Walton, County, GA then had a farm back at Oxford in Newton County until about 1898. He then sold it and lived on the proceeds and a small pension.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900, and his Confederate pension application of 1893 and of 1894 to 1905.

He married Amanda Bird (1844-1909) in 1869 and they adopted a son, Homer (1880-1961).

05/08/1833; Morgan County, GA

1914