Jesse Kent Wimberly

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents, 3 siblings (+3 young relatives?), and 7 slaves on their farm near Waynesboro in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Waynesboro on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 12 August in Richmond, VA as a Private in Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 6 October for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital from 10 to 17 October and then at the parole camp, Camp Lee, until he was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was appointed First Corporal by June 1864, when he was wounded (place not given) by a gunshot to his right foot, and was admitted to a Richmond hospital on the 7th. He returned to duty on 27 June. He was back in a Richmond hospital, ill, on 7 August and furloughed home for 30 days on 11 August. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant to date from 27 August 1864 and was paroled at Augusta, GA on 20 May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer living next door to his parents at Waynesboro, GA and in 1880 he was the US Revenue Collector in Waynesboro; his wife Alice was a schoolteacher. By 1900 he was director of an insurance company in San Antonio, TX and in 1910 was a real estate agent there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed as Jesse A Wimberly. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a photograph contributed to FamilySearch database by Steven Wales.

He married (cousin?) Alice Minnie Wimberley (1844-1920) in May 1865 and they had 7 children.

04/24/1843; Augusta, GA

02/18/1916; San Antonio, TX; burial in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, TX