William Henry Philpot

In 1860 he was a 31 year old physician in Talbot County, GA. He enlisted at Talbotton, GA on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 4th Georgia Infantry. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 10 May and promoted to Surgeon on 16 November 1861.

He was left behind to care for the wounded and captured, probably at a field hospital on the Grove farm on the road to Shepherdstown outside Sharpsburg on 19 September 1862.

He treated wounded soldiers on the Grove farm and was released or exchanged to return to duty by 18 November 1862. He resigned his commission on 27 August 1863 and was later commissioned Major and Brigade Surgeon, CSA, assigned to the George Doles' (later Cook's) Brigade.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again practicing medicine, at Talbotton, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Thomas,2 source also of his photograph. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Laura Elliott who posted a list of Georgia soldiers Dr Philpot knew to have been wounded and killed at Sharpsburg, published in the (Atlanta) Southern Confederacy of 18 November 1862 via the CivilWarTalk online forum.

He married Josephine Dorcas Butler (1836-1868) in June 1852 and they had 9 children. He married again, Theresa Mariah Bentley (1854-1882) in about 1872 and they had 2 more. He married for the third time, Frances Leonora Mullins (1843-1885)in January 1884.

03/03/1828; Augusta, GA

10/20/1904; Columbia, SC; burial in Talbotton City Cemetery, Talbotton, GA