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(? - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Barstow County, he enlisted on 13 June 1861 as Private, Company H, 18th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in September 1862 at the Federal Franklin's Corps hospital near the battlefield.
References & notes
Service information from Fincham1 from Henderson's Roster. Death and hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as Wm. B. Leek.
Death
09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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: /infantry/18th_inf_regt.html [AotW citation 9509]