Green B. Barksdale

In 1860 he was a 45 year old planter living with his wife, son Virgil, father William, and 11 slaves in Dougherty County, GA. He enlisted on 10 August 1861 in Albany, GA and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company D, Cobb's Legion Cavalry. He was promoted to 4th Sergeant by May 1862 and his horse was killed under him on 27 June 1862 in action near Gaines' Mill, VA.

He was killed - "shot through the heart" - in action at the Quebec Schoolhouse near Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862.

His widow filed a claim for his final pay of $154.76 in November 1862 and again in March 1864. She appointed an attorney to represent her in that claim in November 1864, but there is no record she was ever paid. She was also due $150 for his horse, killed in June 1862; that payment was issued to her attorney in Richmond in March 1865, but probably never reached her.

His service from Harriet Bey Mesic's Cobb's Legion Cavalry (2009) and his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; his birth year from a family bible. His death is described in Pickerill.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Celia Connell (1810-1883) in October 1839.

Thanks to Laura Elliot for noting that "... Capt F Edgeworth Eve recalled that Sgt "Barksdell" was killed at Burkittsville. The recollection was published in the Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA), August 2, 1896."

1814; Hancock County, GA

09/13/1862; near Middletown, MD