Wilburn Thompson (b. ca. 1825) was a Milton County, Georgia tenant farmer. At the time of the 1860 Census, Thompson and his wife Charlotte “Lottie” (b. ca. 1830) had three children (another was born in 1864). According to the census, Thompson and his wife could not read or write, so others wrote his letters for him. Wilburn Thompson enlisted as a private in Co. G, 56th Georgia Infantry in the spring of 1862. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Dalton, Georgia and died at Camp Morton, Indianapolis in August 1864.