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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George H. Owens

(1839 - 1910)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Harwood in Guadalupe County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Joe Anna Edwards (1847-1916) in January 1870 and they had 4 children.

Birth

04/18/1839; Fayette County, AL

Death

10/15/1910; Harwood, TX; burial in Thompsonville Cemetery, Thompsonville, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1643]

2 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 26757]

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