Chaplain William Burton Owen remained behind at Gettysburg to tend to the wounded. While there he attended to Wiley K. Bracewell of the 49th Georgia, whose right thigh had been fractured. Before Owen was sent off to Fort McHenry as a prisoner, he received a letter sent to Bracewell by his mother. After Owen was paroled and returned to Richmond, he was able to write to Bracewell's mother (on 8 December 1863), in which he described her son's wound and subsequent death on 27 August 1863 at the Camp Letterman hospital near Gettysburg. Owen's letter was printed in an article about Wiley that was published in Virginia Country Civil War, Volume III (Middleburg, Virginia, 1985), p. 28