George Allen

He came to Colorado County, TX in 1859 and was a 26 year old shoemaker when he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 1 August 1861 at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County.

He was in action with his Company on South Mountain near Boonsboro, MD on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and his arm was amputated the next day at a field hospital on Plank's Farm. He was captured there, then was in the DeCamp General Hospital in New York harbor by 21 July and was paroled there, date not given. He was at the parole camp in Richmond, VA by 17 September and was in hospitals there from 25 September to about 27 November 1863, when he was furloughed home, to Mobile, AL. He was listed as disabled and absent without leave by March 1864 after his furlough expired.

He returned to Texas in January 1864, moved to Runnels County in 1881 where he was county sheep herder, and later to Floresville in Wilson County. In 1900 he was living in the Confederate Home in Austin, TX.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Polley3 says he lost an arm at 2nd Manassas. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census for 1900, and a bio sketch (#31) by H. D. Pearce in 126 Biographical Sketches of Confederate Soldiers (1910) [transcription]. At least one genealogist has his middle name as Travis, source unknown. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Moore "Betty" Ogden (1840-1918) in March 1883 and they had a son, John Ogden (1884-1943).

03/04/1835; Rochester, NY

08/23/1913; Austin, TX; burial in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX