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(1838 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Education: University of Georgia, Class of 1862
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in Athens, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company D of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in May 1862 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 16 August.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 16 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 6 October. He was promoted to Captain to date from 14 September, was formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to his company on 20 November 1862. He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital with cerebral meningitis in April 1863 and and sent home to Augusta, GA on a 30 day furlough on 14 May. He was killed in the assault on Fort Sanders at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863.
His father Charles filed a claim for his final pay in December 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.
His brother Alexander Asa Winn (1842-1891), formerly of the 3rd Georgia Infantry, was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company D of the Legion in February 1865.
More on the Web
His name is in the Garden of Remembrance at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Birth
01/28/1838; Clarke County, GA
Death
11/29/1863; Knoxville, TN
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 33934]