Col. W.G. Deloney
Commanding Cavalry
Cobb Legion
Lee's Army
William G. Deloney raised a cavalry company in Athens, Ga., in the summer of 1861, and was commissioned Captain of Company C of the Cavalry Battalion, Cobb Legion. He was later promoted to command the battalion and survived a serious wound on his face when slashed by a sabre at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). Returning to duty, he was wounded in a leg and captured at a skirmish at Jack's Shop, Virginia. He died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., in Oct. 1863.
(See Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War by Anne J. Bailey & Walter J. Fraser, Jr., pp. 122, 357, spelled "Delony.")∼Confederate officer. Graduated from the University of Georgia, 1846 his first honors; Lawyer. Captain, Company C,. Cavalry Battalion of Cobb's Georgia Legion - August 1, 1861; Major - May 23, 1862; Lt. Col. - November 1, 1862. Wounded in the face at Gettysburg; mortally wounded at Brandy Station, September 23, 1863, died in D.C. on October 2.
Commanding Cavalry
Cobb Legion
Lee's Army
William G. Deloney raised a cavalry company in Athens, Ga., in the summer of 1861, and was commissioned Captain of Company C of the Cavalry Battalion, Cobb Legion. He was later promoted to command the battalion and survived a serious wound on his face when slashed by a sabre at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). Returning to duty, he was wounded in a leg and captured at a skirmish at Jack's Shop, Virginia. He died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., in Oct. 1863.
(See Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War by Anne J. Bailey & Walter J. Fraser, Jr., pp. 122, 357, spelled "Delony.")∼Confederate officer. Graduated from the University of Georgia, 1846 his first honors; Lawyer. Captain, Company C,. Cavalry Battalion of Cobb's Georgia Legion - August 1, 1861; Major - May 23, 1862; Lt. Col. - November 1, 1862. Wounded in the face at Gettysburg; mortally wounded at Brandy Station, September 23, 1863, died in D.C. on October 2.
Col. W.G. Deloney
Commanding Cavalry
Cobb Legion
Lee's Army
William G. Deloney raised a cavalry company in Athens, Ga., in the summer of 1861, and was commissioned Captain of Company C of the Cavalry Battalion, Cobb Legion. He was later promoted to command the battalion and survived a serious wound on his face when slashed by a sabre at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). Returning to duty, he was wounded in a leg and captured at a skirmish at Jack's Shop, Virginia. He died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., in Oct. 1863.
(See Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War by Anne J. Bailey & Walter J. Fraser, Jr., pp. 122, 357, spelled "Delony.")∼Confederate officer. Graduated from the University of Georgia, 1846 his first honors; Lawyer. Captain, Company C,. Cavalry Battalion of Cobb's Georgia Legion - August 1, 1861; Major - May 23, 1862; Lt. Col. - November 1, 1862. Wounded in the face at Gettysburg; mortally wounded at Brandy Station, September 23, 1863, died in D.C. on October 2.
Commanding Cavalry
Cobb Legion
Lee's Army
William G. Deloney raised a cavalry company in Athens, Ga., in the summer of 1861, and was commissioned Captain of Company C of the Cavalry Battalion, Cobb Legion. He was later promoted to command the battalion and survived a serious wound on his face when slashed by a sabre at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). Returning to duty, he was wounded in a leg and captured at a skirmish at Jack's Shop, Virginia. He died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., in Oct. 1863.
(See Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War by Anne J. Bailey & Walter J. Fraser, Jr., pp. 122, 357, spelled "Delony.")∼Confederate officer. Graduated from the University of Georgia, 1846 his first honors; Lawyer. Captain, Company C,. Cavalry Battalion of Cobb's Georgia Legion - August 1, 1861; Major - May 23, 1862; Lt. Col. - November 1, 1862. Wounded in the face at Gettysburg; mortally wounded at Brandy Station, September 23, 1863, died in D.C. on October 2.
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