Pike-Butler-Montgomery County AlArchives Military Records.....Wingard, Zachariah  Zach February 1, 1863
Civilwar - Enlistment CoD 4th Battalion Hilliard Legion Artillery,Co H 59th Infantry Regiment
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Civil   War
Zachariah enlisted at Greenville,Butler Co;Alabama February 1 1863 as a 
Private.The unit completed its organization at Dalton,Georgia.The men were from 
Dallas,Madison,Macon,Lauderdale,Jackson,Marengo,Perry,and Conecuh Counties.They 
were order to Virginia ,the unit fought in the Battle of Manassas under General 
B E Bee.They lost thirty-three percent of the 750 engaged,included all its 
field officers.Later it was assigned to General Law's and W F Perry's 
Brigade,Army of Northern Virginia.The unit was active in Seven Pines and to 
Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at 
Suffolk,Chickamauga,and Knoxville.The regiment was placed in the trenches of 
Peterburg and ended the war at Appomattox.It was reported 130 men was disabled 
at Gaine's Mill,63 at Second Manassas,and 87 at Gettysburg.Thirty-three percent 
at Chickamauga and thirty percent of the 250 at The Wilderness.This unit 
surrendered with 21 officers and 202 men.The field officers were Colonel P D 
Bowles,Edbert J Jones,and Evander M Law;Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J Goldsby,O K 
McLemore,and L H Scruggs;amd Major Benn Allston,T K Coleman,W Mack Robbins,and 
Charles L Scott.

Additional Comments:
Zachariah was born July 17 1827 in Goshen,Pike Co;Alabama.He died November 7 
1897 Goshen,Pike Co;Alabama.His parents were William Wingard and Ellender 
Burgess from Goshen,Pike Co;Alabama.He married Sarah Ann Rebecca Wyrosdick 1848 
in  Pike Co;Alabama.She was the daughter of Thomas Bridges Wyrosdick and Sarah 
Zimmerman.Zachariah and Sarah are buried at Shady Grove Cemetery in Pike 
Co;Alabama.

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