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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

George W. Selby

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22 (or 18), he enlisted at Paulding, MS on 27 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed First Corporal on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father S.E. Selby of Jasper County, MS filed for his son's final pay in December 1862.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1839 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 29652]

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