William T. Tweedy

Of Irish-born parents who had settled in Canada by the time of his birth in 1839, he'd come to Augusta, GA with his family between 1849 and 1853. He enlisted in Monticello, GA on 26 April 1861 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company G, 4th Georgia Infantry; he was 22 years old, with no wife or child. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 16 September 1861, but reduced again to Private on 30 April 1862.

He applied for transfer to the Richmond (GA) Hussars, a cavalry company in Cobb's Legion, and went so far as to purchase a horse and cavalry trooper's accoutrements, but the transfer did not take place. His oldest brother Ephraim was 2nd Lieutenant of that unit, which was the reason for his request.

He was mortally wounded in the bowels in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He died of wounds in a US field hospital near the battlefield on 21 (or 26) September.

His widowed mother Mary Lawson Tweedy filed a claim for his final pay of $53.53 in February 1863 which was apparently paid in March 1864.

His service from Thomas,1 who says he was killed outright on 17 September, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, which also has his death on 26 September. Wound and death details from a casualty list by Surgeon Philpot of the 4th Georgia published in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy  of 18 November 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott for that, via CivilWarTalk. Personal details from family genealogists.

10/29/1839; Montreal, CANADA

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD