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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Hartley

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Berrien County, enlisted in Company I, 50th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information Henderson's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia by way of Fincham,1, who have him as missing in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain. His memorial is on Findagrave, source of information about his death and other details.

His mother Margaret "Peggy" Williams was a full-blood Creek Indian, raised by a white family named Williams in what was then Lowndes County.

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1   Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Georgia C.S.A., Published c. 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/index.html>, Source page: /georgia/infantry/50th_inf_regt.html  [AotW citation 3003]