Corporal William D. Mangham

 W.D. Mangham was born march 2, 1840. W. D. Mangham enlisted as a 3rd Corporal in Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment (Confederate Guards) on July 8, 1861. He was wounded at Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862. Corporal Mangham was wounded again, date and place not given and was discharged due to disability on January 17, 1865. He died November 11, 1874 and is buried in the Mangham cemetery in Pike County, Georgia.

The 13th Infantry Regiment [also called Bartow Light Infantry] completed its organization in June, 1861, at Griffin, Georgia. Its members were recruited in the counties of Pike, Randolph, Early, Muscogee, Meriwether, Fayette, and Troup. This regiment first served in Western Virginia, then in December was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina, where it reported to General R.E. Lee.
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During the spring it fought at Whitemarch Island and soon moved back to Virginia. Brigaded under Generals Lawton, John B. Gordon, and C.A. Evans, it served with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. The regiment was then involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. The unit lost 9 killed and 19 wounded at Second Manassas, had 48 killed and 166 wounded at Sharpsburg, and sustained 13 casualties at Second Winchester. Of the 312 engaged at Gettysburg, more than forty percent were disabled. It surrendered 12 officers and 161 men.

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