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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George Eli Lentz

(1844 - 1925)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at age 17 in Company A, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 14 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 14 September 1862 on South Mountain.

The rest of the War

He was captured in action at Rappahanock Station, VA in NOvember 1863 and held at Point Lookout, MD until taking the Oath of Allegiance and joining the US service on 24 January 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Iobst1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Birth

04/26/1844; Cabarrus County, NC

Death

02/01/1925; Cabarrus County, NC; burial in Cross of Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery, Concord, NC

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 283 - 310 [AotW citation 6312]

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