My great great grandfather, William Ledbetter enlisted at Talladega on the 10th of April 1862 and was in Co. E 31st Alabama Infantry, CSA. He was captured, then paroled at Vicksburg, 9 July 63. He was in Wayside Hospital, Demopolis, AL, on 17 Oct. 63. Then he was captured at Resaca, 16 May 1864. He was received at the US Army General Hospital at Chattanooga with a lacerated wound of the head caused by a shell (hit his right eye) from the May 15th battle at Resaca. He was sent to Camp Douglas and discharged from there on June 13, 1865. He was 27 in 1864. William T. Ledbetter applied for his CSA pension on July 30, 1885. He was a private in Company E of the 31st Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. He was wounded, while in the discharge of his duty on the 15th Day of May 1864 at Resaca in the State of Georgia, in consequence of which wound he received such wound in such service as renders him physically incapable of making a livelihood by labor, that he was a resident of the State of Alabama on the 17th day of February 1885, that he is now a resident of Precinct No. 14 in Calhoun county, and State of Alabama and is at present engaged in business as a farmer; that he does not own in his own name, nor does his wife own, two thousand dollars worth of property, after deducting the amount of all encumbrances thereon; and that he is entitled to relief under the act "Providing for the Relief of Soldiers Maimed or Disabled during the late war," approved February 17, 1885. William T. Ledbetter made his mark (due to total blindness) on J! uly 30, 1885. My grandmother told me that he was left on the battlefield for dead and when they came back for the bodies several days later they discovered he was still alive. His eye was severely infected so he lost that eye and the infection spread to his other eye which eventually blinded him completely. I don't have any pictures of him. ----- Original Message ----- From: resacacsacem@excite.com Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:28 PM To: AL-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AL-Civil-War] Descendants of Soldiers of The Battle of Resaca, Ga. Union or Confederate This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xhC.2ACE/760 Message Board Post: Looking for the Decsendants of these Soldiers who fought at Resaca, Ga. May 13-15, 1864. We are working on a book to commemorate those who fought here at Resaca. What we are looking for are pictures on any soldier Confederate or Union, who fought and either lived to tell about it or, Wounded, Captured, or Killed at the Battle of Resaca, Ga. We would like to do a little book that honors them and the Battle at the same time. The title we are working on is called " The Faces of War: Resaca, Ga. May 13-15, 1864." If you have an ancestor that was at this Battle and would like to get them in the book please email and let us know we can get there picture into the book. This book will be a partner book to the Resaca Confederate Cemetery Book. Thank You all. William T. Hobgood Resaca, Ga. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237