Jeter, William Guerrant

Birth:    27 Jun 1840
             Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Death:   July 28, 1864
              Battle of Ezra Church
              Atlanta, Georgia

Burial:  Unknown but probably an unmarked grave in the Oakland Cemetery at Atlanta, Georgia.
              Over a period of several years after the battle, the women of Atlanta had the hastily buried
              Confederate dead disinterred from where they fell and reburied in an area dedicated to
              the Rebel soldiers in Oakland.

Military Service:  First Lieutenant, 4th Louisiana
                              Company F
                              Enlisted 25 May 1861, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
                              Killed at the Battle of Ezra Church
                              Never Married, died at age 24

William Guerrant Jeter was a member of Delta Rifles of West Baton Rouge in Civil War, and was in the battles of Corinth, East Baton Rouge and Atlanta. 

He survived his escape from the Maple Leaf only to be killed a year later at the Battle of Ezra Church  (also known as the Battle of Ezra Chapel and the Battle of the Poor House)  in the afternoon of July 28, 1864.  He was acting as Captain.  The Battle of Ezra Church was also known as the B,attle of Atlanta .  In all, about three thousand Confederate lives were lost that day.  The hard fought loss of the Battle of Ezra Chapel was the last ditch effort of the Confederates to stop Sherman's march, and left Atlanta open for the Federals.

 William Jeter was the brother-in-law of fellow Maple Leaf prisoner Emile Aloysius Carmouche.