A SHERIFF’S SERIVCE
Oil on Paper 8 x 10"
$200
Oil on Paper 8 x 10"
$200
William S. Neese, Company “C”, 16th Georgia Infantry
Forty-three years old at the start of the Civil War, William Neese was a sheriff in Hart County, Georgia. He saw his 18 year old son John enlist in Company “C”, 16th Georgia Infantry, known as the “Hartwell Infantry,” in June, 1861, and suffer a wound at Chancellorsville in 1863. One year later, in March 1864, Sheriff Neese joined his child, enlisting as a private in “C” Company. His service, however, would be short-lived. Just two months after his enlistment, he was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness. Sent to an Elmira, New York federal prison camp, he would die there of typhoid fever on April 13, 1865, four days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. He lies buried today in the prisoner’s section of the Woodlawn National Cemetery. Son John was wounded again after his father’s capture, and sent home, where he remained until the end of the War.