William T. Wimberly

In 1860 he was the 21 year old owner of 12 slaves living on John C Fulcher's plantation (36 slaves) near McBean in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Waynesboro on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 12 August in Richmond, VA as 2nd Sergeant of Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was promoted to First Sergeant by December 1861 and appointed Sergeant Major of the Battalion by September 1862.

He was shot through the neck, his spinal cord injured, in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 2 January 1863 and sent to the post hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 9 February. He was paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 19 June 1863. There is no later military record with the Legion.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer back in Burke County, GA. In 1887 he wrote that his left arm and leg were "substantially useless" and he suffered partial paralysis on his right side as well, results of his 1862 wound. He was then, and until at least 1893, still in Burke County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Further hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and his 1887-1893 Confederate pension applications.

He married Edla C Powell (1845-) in March 1865 and they had 2 children.

12/06/1839; Augusta, GA