Wiley Jackson Bean served in Company E, 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, along with Benjamin Apling Burdett and his two brothers, Samuel Monroe and Littleton Jesse Burdett, and other Bean and Hood brothers.
Wiley, age 38, married, enlisted September 8, 1861, at Eastville, Alabama, for a period of the war. Born in Georgia, he was listed as a farmer in Fox Creek. He was a private in Company E (Randolph Rangers), 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the battles of Yorktown, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (the first day of battle) along with Benjamin Burdett and Gen. James Archer, and was sent to Ft. Delaware on Pea Patch Island, Delaware, a Union prison.
Wiley J. died a Prisoner of War, of scurvy, on January 13, 1864. His name is on a list of Confederate soldiers buried at Finn's Point, Salem, New Jersey. The U.S. erected a monument to mark the burial place of 2,436 Confederate soldiers who died at Ft. Delaware.
Wiley Jackson Bean served in Company E, 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, along with Benjamin Apling Burdett and his two brothers, Samuel Monroe and Littleton Jesse Burdett, and other Bean and Hood brothers.
Wiley, age 38, married, enlisted September 8, 1861, at Eastville, Alabama, for a period of the war. Born in Georgia, he was listed as a farmer in Fox Creek. He was a private in Company E (Randolph Rangers), 13th Regiment, Alabama Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the battles of Yorktown, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 (the first day of battle) along with Benjamin Burdett and Gen. James Archer, and was sent to Ft. Delaware on Pea Patch Island, Delaware, a Union prison.
Wiley J. died a Prisoner of War, of scurvy, on January 13, 1864. His name is on a list of Confederate soldiers buried at Finn's Point, Salem, New Jersey. The U.S. erected a monument to mark the burial place of 2,436 Confederate soldiers who died at Ft. Delaware.
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