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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wyatt H McPherson

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 50th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Enlisted as a private in Company D, 2nd Regiment, 1st Brigade, Georgia State Troops 6 November 1861. Mustered out April 1862. Enlisted as a private in Company E, 50th Regiment, Georgia Infantry 15 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Frederick, Maryland 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Captured at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862. Leg amputated September 1862. Died from wounds in U.S.A. General Hospital #1, at Frederick, Maryland,

References & notes

Basic service information from Ranger951.

Death

10/27/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, 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 3041]