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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Granville L. Gage

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company C, First Texas Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds, date and place not given.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson,2 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg. His first name and wound detail also from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. Details from family genealogists.

He probably changed his name from Granville L. Hall sometime after he married Luvinia Adeline Robinson/Robertson (1837-1927, gravesite via Findagrave) in 1852. They had 4 children together, the last, daughter Hesta, born about 1862.

Death

1862

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1441]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 27 [AotW citation 20870]

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