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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George Washington Henderson

(1837 - 1926)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County, TX as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was slightly wounded in the thigh in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was furloughed from Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA for 40 days to Jackson, MS on 20 October 1864 with no later military record.

After the War

He moved to Oklahoma by 1908.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/04/1837 in IL

Death

05/10/1926; in TX; burial in Pettys Chapel Cemetery, Corsicana, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1900]

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 26914]

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