Full Name: William Harr Doggett
Billy Doggett went off to join his older brother Jimmy in the Civil War. My father has the transcript of a letter that Billy wrote back home to his parents on Jun 2 1864. 3 days later he was in the Battle of Piedmont (Virginia) and captured by the Union Army. He died a few weeks later on 1 Sep 1864, as a POW at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN. He was only 18. - Janet Doggett LaFleur 17 Jul 2011 (updated 26 Jan 2021)
Billy Doggett went off to join his older brother Jimmy in the Civil War. My father has the transcript of a letter that Billy wrote back home to his parents on Jun 2 1864. 3 days later he was in the Battle of Piedmont (Virginia) and captured by the Union Army. He died a few weeks later on 1 Sep 1864, as a POW at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN. He was only 18. - Janet Doggett LaFleur 17 Jul 2011 (updated 26 Jan 2021)
Full Name: William Harr Doggett
Billy Doggett went off to join his older brother Jimmy in the Civil War. My father has the transcript of a letter that Billy wrote back home to his parents on Jun 2 1864. 3 days later he was in the Battle of Piedmont (Virginia) and captured by the Union Army. He died a few weeks later on 1 Sep 1864, as a POW at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN. He was only 18. - Janet Doggett LaFleur 17 Jul 2011 (updated 26 Jan 2021)
Billy Doggett went off to join his older brother Jimmy in the Civil War. My father has the transcript of a letter that Billy wrote back home to his parents on Jun 2 1864. 3 days later he was in the Battle of Piedmont (Virginia) and captured by the Union Army. He died a few weeks later on 1 Sep 1864, as a POW at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, IN. He was only 18. - Janet Doggett LaFleur 17 Jul 2011 (updated 26 Jan 2021)
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Co H 59th Inf Tennessee
Gravesite Details
Died as a Confederate Prisoner of War at Camp Morton, originally interred at Green Lawn Cemetery (Confederate Section), but reinterred in 1933 in a mass grave of 1616 Confederate POW'S at Crown Hill.
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