The city of

Sharpsburg and the Sons of Confederate Veterans,

Sharpsburg Sharpshooters, Camp 1729, conducted an

unveiling Monday night for a plaque honoring William

Thomas Overby.

Overby was

born in 1837 in Dinwoodie County, Va. and his family

moved to Newnan in 1839. He entered the Confederate

States Army in May, 1861, fought in a number of battles

and was wounded Aug. 31, 1862 at Second Manassas.

Taken to a

hospital six miles away, he remained there for 29 days

when the Union forces took the town over and he was

paroled.

The next

year was spent working as a nurse in Confederate

hospitals and eventually becoming a member of

"Mosby's Rangers," a guerrilla division of the

Confederate Army, operating in northern Virginia.

On Sept.

23, 1864 he and five others were captured at Front Royal,

Va.; four were shot and two were hanged, with Overby

being one of those two.

He was

buried in the Anderson cemetery (Anderson was one of

those shot) until December 1996. Members of the

Sharpsburg Sharpshooters, after many years and many

people asking the Commonwealth of Virginia for permission

to bring him back home, were finally given that

permission and they re-interred him in Oak Hill Cemetery,

Newnan.

The city of

Sharpsburg erected a flag pole in his honor last year and

this past Monday evening, the Sharpshooters unveiled a

plaque erected at the flagpole.