George Washington Hollon

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his father Randolph's large and prosperous place known as Hollonville near Zebulon in Pike County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

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

There is no later military record.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as G.W. Holland. Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the Savannah Weekly Republican of 4 October 1862, as T.W. Holland. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Frank M. Johnson, in A History of Texas and Texans (Vol. 5, 1914) [page online], described George's father:

Randolph Hollon was born in North Carolina in 1800; in that State grew into unlettered manhood, and then went to Georgia to make his mark. He became a planter and dealt in slaves, and was worth about a hundred thousand dollars before the war. He established a store on his farm, which took the name of Hollonville and which became the center of a busy commercial community before he passed away in 1863.

Being a slave dealer and owner and a man of Southern birth, his attitude was that of an uncompromising rebel, and he took pride in sending his sons out to fight for the principles in which he believed. Five of his sons took up arms in defense of the Confederate Government. He belonged to no church or society, and his life seems to have been absorbed in the pleasure of money-making.

03/12/1840 in GA

01/17/1866; Waco, TX