George William Beale

Son of wealthy lawyer, former US Congressman, and planter Richard Lee Turberville Beale (1819-1893), in 1860 George was an 18 year old living with his parents, 5 younger siblings, and 32 slaves at Kinsale in Westmoreland County, VA. He enlisted on 25 May 1861 at Hague, VA and mustered as a Private in Company C, 9th Virginia Cavalry. He was appointed 3rd Sergeant on 20 July 1861 and was First Sergeant by June 1862.

He was with his Company in a cavalry action at Boonesboro on 15 September and at Sharpsburg on the 17th.

He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 9 December 1862. Except for a period in a Richmond, VA hospital in April and May 1864, he was with his company til he was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh on 7 February 1865. He was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA to 21 February, then furloughed home; his leave was extended on 15 March with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a minister living again with his parents and siblings at Nomini Grove in Westmoreland County but in 1880 he was preaching at Halifax Court House, VA. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a Baptist minister at Heathsville in Northumberland County, VA. In 1920, then 77 year old, he was again preaching in Westmoreland County.

His presence at Sharpsburg from Carman.1 Service details from Krick,2 his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, and his own A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee's Army (1918). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave, along with two postwar photographs of him.

He married Mary Anna Bouic (1844-1933) in December 1879 and they had 7 children.

His father was appointed Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry in September 1864 (to date from September 1862), and Brigadier General, CSA in January 1865.

08/21/1842; Westmoreland County, VA

07/15/1921; Westmoreland County, VA; burial in Coan Church, Heathsville, VA