1st Lieutenant Octavius Augustus Wiggins

The Breakthrough

1st Lieutenant Octavius Augustus Wiggins

Company E, 37th North Carolina

Infantry, Lane’s Brigade,

Wilcox’s Division, Third Corps

Resident: Halifax County, North Carolina

Enlisted: June 1862

Wiggins was wounded near here during the Breakthrough on April 2, 1865: “I received a scalp wound, the muzzle of ...