(1835 - 1864)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Regimental Major
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Before Antietam
Before the War, George Covode was a Westmoreland County merchant and US Congressman's son. He mustered as Captain, Company D of the Fourth in September 1861. In March 1862 he was promoted to the open Major's position.
The rest of the War
He was made Lieutenant Colonel on 8 December 1863, and finally Colonel of the regiment 28 May 1864. He was killed, not quite one month later, in action at St. Mary's Church, Virginia.
References & notes
Service details from Bates1. The photo above is a detail from an 1862 Gardner photograph at the Library of Congress
Birth
1835 in PA
Death
06/26/1864; in VA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 841]