Individual Details

Private, Company C, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, CSA
Washington L Blankenship, age 21, was enlisted by Capt. John H. Forney on June 4, 1861, at Montevallo, Alabama. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital No. 4, Richmond, Virginia, on May 12, 1862, with acute diarrhea, and returned to duty on May 20. He was admitted to General Hospital, Farmville, Virginia, on July 11 and returned to duty on July 20, 1862.

Source: Washington L Blankenship, Confederate Civil War Service Records, Fold3.

9-year-old Washington Blankenship is listed in the 1850 federal census in Hatchet Creek, Coosa County, Alabama, with James, 55, and Mary Blankenship, 55, and 5 siblings. In 1870 the Blankenships were in Shelby County, Alabama. Washington Blankenship married Nancey Dennis on March 27, 1871, in Shelby County, Alabama.

Birth

1841

Alabama

Father	James S. Blankenship (1795 - )
Mother	Mary Ann Blankenship (1802 - )
Sibling	Mary Blankenship (1830 - )
Sibling	Faith Ann Blankenship (1833 - 1902)
Sibling	Reuben Blankenship (1834 - )
Sibling	Martha Blankenship (1836 - )
Sibling	John Blankenship (1843 - )