G. W. C. Allen

Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Georgia Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He enlisted as Private, Company G of the 10th Georgia Infantry on 3 December 1861, as a Substitute.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Died at Lavinia Grove's Farm, Md. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1. Also see a fine research post from Jim Buchanan at Walking the West Woods.

Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials , Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4527]

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