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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

Gibbons Allensworth

(1835 - 1911)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old coach maker living with farmer James Ball and family at Penola in Caroline County, VA. He enrolled on 21 May 1861 in Childsburg, VA and was commissioned 2nd (or 3rd) Lieutenant of Company G, 30th Virginia Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 2 April 1862 and to Captain on 18 April.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was hospitalized 3 times during the War for dysentery and dyspepsia, but was with his Company at the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer back in Caroline County, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and Krick.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Maria Elizabeth “Bettie” Allen (1833-1913) in 1862.

Birth

08/19/1835; King George County, VA

Death

07/14/1911; Golansville, VA; burial in County Line Baptist Church Cemetery, Ruther Glen, VA

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 33944]

2 Krick, Robert K., 30th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H.E. Howard, Inc., 1983 [AotW citation 33945]

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