George Ernest

Age 21, he enlisted at Summit, MS on 20 April 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was reduced to Private at his own request on 1 July 1861.

He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

By October 1862 and to at least June 1863 he was detailed as a shoemaker in Charlottesville, VA. He was captured on 26 June 1863 at "Katysville" or "Katersville" (possibly Keedysville), MD and briefly held at Harpers Ferry, VA and Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD, then sent to Fort Delaware on 5 July. He was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 8 July, and returned to duty on 30 October 1863. He was again detailed as a shoemaker, at Orange Court House, VA, by the end of 1863, and returned to his Company by April 1864. He was captured (or deserted) on 9 April 1865 at Petersburg, VA, took an oath of allegiance in Washington, DC on 12 April 1865, and was furnished transportation to New York City.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1840