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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George Burrel Huggins

(1835 - 1903)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22 (?), he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was sick at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, TN on 28 (or 29) October 1863, was sent from Nashville to the military prison at Louisville, KY on 4 or 5 November 1863, then to Camp Morton in Indianapolis, IN. He was paroled there on 26 February 1865 and sent to City Point, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond hospital by March 11 and furloughed for 30 days on the 12th, with no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was farming at Belton in Bell County, TX. In 1880 he was a farmer in Gonzales County.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Polley 3 has him as Geo. Hudgins. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870 and 1880; his middle name may have been Burl. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Zillah Elizabeth Miller (1846-1929) in October 1866 in Gonzales County, and they ha d9 children.

Birth

02/05/1835 in MS

Death

03/16/1903; Nolanville, TX; burial in McDowell Cemetery, Belton, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1736]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26834]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 321 [AotW citation 26835]

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