NameWiley Hamilton CUNNINGHAM
Birth Date8 Apr 1830
Birth PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Death Date11 Jul 1863 Age: 33
Death PlaceCamp Morton, Marion County, Indiana
MemoCivil War Union POW Camp
Burial PlaceIndianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Crown Hill Cemetery
MemoConfederate Section
OccupationCW Confederate Soldier, TN Volunteers, Co. K, 3rd Regiment,
Wiley is reported to have been conscripted into the Confederate Army while working on the family farm on Nails Creek in Blount Co, TN.He was sent to active duty in Mississippi. He was captured May 16, 1863 at the Battle of Champions Hill (Baker’s Creek) near Vicksburg, MS and was subsequently taken to POW Camp Morton, IN. Information from the National Archives, Washington, DC, indicates that Wiley Hamilton was enlisted as a private on April 1, 1863 in Knoxville by a Major Peck into Company K, 3rd Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteers, CSA, for the duration of the war.
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Pvt Wiley Hamilton Cunningham
Birth: Apr. 8, 1828
Blount County
Tennessee, USA
Death: Jul. 11, 1863
Marion County
Indiana, USA
Civil War Service Records
about Wiley H. Cunningham
Name: Wiley H. Cunningham
COMPANY: K
UNIT: 3 (Lillard's) Tennessee Mounted Infantry.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Confederate
Notes: Cunningham, W. H.
Roster of Prison shows he died of Lung Infection at Morton Confederate Prison
Roll M598-101 shows that Whiley H Cunningham 3rd Middle Tennessee Company K was sent to Fort Delaware for Exchange on June 22, 1863
Roll Shows Whiley H Cunningham Captured at Champion Hill May 17, 1863
'.... shortly after the Confederate Conscription Act was passed, Wiley Hamilton Cunningham and Samuel Flanagin were working together near their homes when Confederate soldiers rode up and told them they had to go into the army. Sam pointed toward his house and asked if he could go say good bye to his wife. He was given permission to do so. He ran up to his house, entered the front door, grabbed his gun and ran out the back door and up the small mountain in the rear. The soldiers never found him. ....'
Charlie Cunningham was told the story by his grandmother - Sarah Brakebill Cunningham, Wiley Cunningham's widow.
Family links:
Spouse:
Sarah Brakebill Cunningham (1829 - 1920)*
Children:
Benjamin J. Cunningham (1850 - 1934)*
James B Cunningham (1851 - 1854)*
Oliver Perry Cunningham (1853 - 1914)*
Lavinia Cunningham Thomas (1857 - 1890)*
Ann E Cunningham Flannagin (1859 - 1937)*
William Harvey Cunningham (1861 - 1931)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indiana, USA
Plot: 32-285
Created by: Jim Smaltz
Record added: Aug 25, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29319920
Posted on Ancestry by Beverly J. Jeffries.
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