W. F. Brantley
| William Felix Brantley | |
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William Felix Brantley
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| Born |
March 12, 1830 Greene County, Alabama |
| Died | November 2, 1870 (aged 40) near Winona, Mississippi |
| Place of burial | Old Greensboro Cemetery, Webster County, Mississippi |
| Allegiance |
 Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1861–65 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
William Felix Brantley (March 12, 1830 – November 2, 1870) was an American lawyer and soldier. He served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War, mainly serving in the Western Theater during the conflict. He is also noted for the manner of his death, murdered as part of a family feud in 1870.
William Felix Brantley was born in 1830 in Greene County, Alabama, but moved with his family to Mississippi while still a child. He was a son of William Brantley, originally from Georgia, and his wife Marina Jolly of Alabama. By 1850 Brantley was studying law in Carroll County, Mississippi. Two years later he began practicing as a lawyer in now non-existent city of Greensboro in Webster County, Mississippi.
On December 27, 1855, Brantley married Cornelia S. Medley, and the couple would have three children together. They were: Mary Thomas, born September 5, 1858, in Macon and died June 11, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri; Joseph Ransom, born September 5, 1859 in Choctaw County and died there on September 19, 1869; and an unnamed infant born in 1861 and died on June 7 of that year. By 1860 Brantley was a lawyer in Choctaw County, Mississippi, where he lived with his brother Dr. John Ransom Brantley. In 1861 he represented his county during the Mississippi state secession convention.
When the American Civil War began in 1861, Brantley chose to follow his home state and the Confederate cause. On April 20 he entered his state's forces as a captain in the Mississippi Militia. On May 21 Brantley joined the Confederate Army when his company (called the Wigfall Rifles) was added to the 15th Mississippi Infantry as Company D, of which he was elected its captain. In the spring of 1862 he was a captain in the 29th Mississippi Infantry, and fought at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, where he was wounded. That May Brantley was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and on December 13 he was promoted to colonel in command of the 29th Mississippi. He then fought during the Battle of Stones River, in which he was wounded again, hit in a shoulder on December 31.
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