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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

George W. Smith

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company I (later D), 6th Alabama Infantry on 16 May 1861 in Montgomery. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 His death on South Mountain is in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862.

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

Notes

1   State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /soldier.cfm?id=186993, etc.  [AotW citation 25647]