Joshua M. Wilkins

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his mother and brother William on their small farm at Mount Zenah in White County, GA. He enlisted in White County on 24 June 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 24th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot through his shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was paroled on 27 September, later transferred for exchange, and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 14 October. He was furloughed home for 60 days on 18 October 1862. From April through June 1864 he was listed as being at home, absent without leave, with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in White County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as W.J. Wilkins. Wound detail also in a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, with birth year estimates ranging from 1835 to 1846 (!).

He married Elizabeth Allison (1840-) in February 1861 and they had a son Benjamin, born in December 1862.

c. 1839 in GA