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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

A. George Gerald

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 20 April 1861 at Summit, MS and mustered as a Private in Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds about 22 September 1862, place not given. His father T.S. (Thomas Sumter) Gerald filed for his final pay in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 as A. G. Gerald, online from fold3. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him as wounded at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists.

His brother Robert S. Gerald (1838-1880) was in Company K of the 16th Mississippi.

Birth

c. 1842; Amite, MS

Death

09/22/1862

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 29580]

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