George Aylett Hodges

He was visiting a great uncle in Texas when war began, and he enlisted in Seguin, Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 25 April 1862. He joined his Company in Virginia by way of San Antonio and New Orleans.

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

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hand in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was furloughed on 16 June for 30 days. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 19 January 1865 and detailed to the CSA General Hospital at Howard's Grove, Richmond, but may have returned to his Company on 24 February. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer and farm laborer near Marlin in Falls County, TX. In 1900 he was living in the new town of Lott, TX. At his death he was editor and publisher of the Lott Clarion (est. 1891) and had been an agent of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Town Site Company, a real estate business associated with the SA&AP railroad.

Service information from Davis,1 as G.A. Hogges, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census for 1870, 1880, and 1900 (which has him as a lawyer), a bio sketch from the Falls County Historical Commission, and his obituary [transcription] in the Waco Daily Times Herald of 7 October 1909. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca White Senter (1848-1928) in about 1866; he'd met her in Tennessee during the war. They had 5 children between 1868 and 1879, all born in Falls County.

12/14/1838; Conecuh County, AL

10/06/1909; Lott, TX; burial in Clover Hill Cemetery, Lott, TX