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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

George Badger Little

"Judge"

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 19 year old miner in Anson County, he mustered as Private, Company C, 14th North Carolina Infantry on 22 April 1861 in Anson County. He was promoted to Corporal on 25 April 1862 and Sergeant on 21 July.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action in the Sunken Road at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while bearing the regimental colors.

References & notes

Service from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His nickname from W.A. Smith's The Anson Guards: Company C, Fourteenth Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1865 (1914); given because Little was "prudent, discriminating, impartial, and judicious".

Birth

c. 1842; Anson County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-  [AotW citation 19212]