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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Hines

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A married 26 year old coachmaker, he enlisted in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 5 December 1861 in Columbia, SC.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Held at Fort Delaware, he was sent to Aikens Landing, VA and exchanged on 2 November 1862. He was again captured, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was in prison at Fort Delaware until released on 7 June 1865.

After the War

He moved to Madison and Obion Counties in Tennessee after the War.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis1.

Birth

c. 1835

Notes

1   Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster  [AotW citation 15988]