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W.F. Gay
(1840 - 1916)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Mustered as Private 7 June 1861 in Company G, 4th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Wounded again, twice, at the Wilderness. Served through the War.
After the War
Living in Newborn, Georgia about 1903.
References & notes
Basic information from Thomas1. His photograph from one taken in Newton County in 1861 with his brother John, now in the Virtual Vault, Georgia State Archives.
Birth
10/10/1840
Death
12/31/1916; Newborn, GA
1 Thomas, Henry Walter, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Atlanta: Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., 1903, pp. 87, 157 - 164 [AotW citation 2661]