William Alfred Penn

Fifth Sergeant, Company A, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, CSA

Born December 16, 1838

Promoted to Private May 7, 1862

Captured July 4, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Paroled July 6, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Appointed Fifth Sergeant November 1863

Died May 08, 1864

Buried at Hopewell Methodist Church, Highway 61 North, Dallas, Georgia