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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William Brinkley Corbitt

(1835 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his parents and 10 younger siblings on their small farm at Magnolia in Clinch County, GA. He enlisted at Camp Brown near Savannah, GA on 5 May 1862 and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company G of the 50th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 27 September, was promoted to Sergeant on 1 January 1863, and returned to his company by February. He was back in Chimborazo #2 with pneumonia on 7 April 1863 and died there on 14 April - his 28th birthday.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Lakeland, GA is on Findagrave.

His brothers Martin and Manning were also wounded at Fox's Gap.

Birth

04/14/1835 in GA

Death

04/14/1863; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 2953]

2 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 34836]

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