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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Glaze

(c. 1834 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer at Rough Edge in Troup County, GA, living with his widowed mother and 2 sisters. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry, probably in May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough from 4 December 1862 to 4 January 1863. He was captured on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA and then a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He died there of smallpox on 20 October 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from Henderson,2 who says he enlisted in July 1861. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1834 in AL

Death

10/20/1863; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 28449]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28450]

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