George M Patterson

Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Sumter (GA) Artillery, Battery B

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Battery B of the Sumter Battalion 16 April 1862, and Captain on 21 July.1

In the Antietam Campaign:
He continued in command of the battery at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and on at least to Petersburg in late 1864.2

More on the Web:
See also a fine post-war photo of Patterson from Brad Coker on his Sumter Artillery site.

Notes

1 Jones, Charles Edgeworth, Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, Atlanta: Foote and Davies, printer, 1909, pg. 67 [AotW citation 875]

2 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, various pages [AotW citation 876]

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