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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

George W. Myers

(c. 1835 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26 or 27, he enlisted on 5 March (or 25 April) 1861 in Natchez, MS and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company G, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled near Keedysville, MD on 20 September and in Richmond, VA by 7 October 1862. He was reduced to Private by the end of 1862 and was captured again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was paroled on 4 May, and exchanged to return to duty by 14 May 1863. He was killed in a charge at Fuzzell's Mill near Petersburg, VA on 18 August 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He was listed as missing at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

08/18/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

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 29767]

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