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Re: Wily Colledge
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You've got quite a mystery on your hands here. Wily is listed only on a Federal POW record in the Compiled Service Records for the 27th Georgia. He is not found on the two muster rolls which survived to be recorded in the Compiled Service Records at the National Archives, those, being for the bi-monthly periods Jan & Feb, 1864, and Mar & Apr, 1864. This would indicate that he was not with the 27th and that the POW record was mistaken.

Nor is he found on other rosters. And then again, the 27th was with the Army of Northern Virginia during the time he was captured near Atlanta.

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Wily Colledge, Sergeant, Company H, 27th Regiment Georgia Infantry, captured at Atlanta, Georgia July 27, 1864, arrived, from Nashville, at Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky during the six days ending October 31, 1864, no further records as to disposition

[Note: This is the one and only card found under his name in the roster of the 27th Georgia]

Company H, 27th Georgia Infantry muster rolls, these are the only two on file

January & February, 1864, stationed at Camp Milton, Florida
March & April, 1864, stationed at James Island, South Carolina

M266: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia

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Engagements

February 20, 1864 - Olustee (Ocean Pond), Fl.

May 16, 1864 - Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling), Va.

May 19, 1864 - August 25, 1864 - Seige of Petersburg, Va.

June 1, 1864 - Cold Harbor (2nd), Va.

June 17, 1864 - Colquitt's Salient (Petersburg Line), Va.

July 30, 1864 - The Battle of the Crater (Petersburg Line), Va.

August 18, 1864 - Weldon Railroad (Globe Tavern), Va.

September 29, 1864 - Fort Harrison (Chaffin's Farm), Va
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/27th-rgt.htm

Eventually sent back to Virginia in May 1864, the Twenty-seventh fought at Cold Harbor and Petersburg.
http://battleofolustee.org/27th_ga_inf.html

Company H: Henry County men-Zachary Rangers. (Rolls on file for this company in the War Department at Washington, D.C., cover period from January 1 to April 30,1864 only.)
http://www.nwinfo.net/~jagriffin/27th.htm

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