George Baber Atkisson

A bookkeeper's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old student living with his parents in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861, left school, and mustered as a Private in the Troup Artillery on 8 May in Savannah.

He was wounded in the chest and thigh, his leg "mutilated" and bone broken by a gunshot, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was left at Shepherdstown, VA after the battle and probably captured there. He was paroled by the end of September and given a 60 day furlough home from Richmond, VA on 1 December 1862. This was probably extended, as he was never able to rejoin the battery. He was retired to the Invalid Corps at Macon, GA on 4 April 1864, reporting to the post Quartermaster there.

In 1870 he was back in Athens, still living with his parents and siblings, but by then listed as a physician. In 1880 he was a teacher in Greensboro, GA but by 1900 was again in Athens, still teaching school. In January 1909 at age 66 he was admitted to the Georgia Confederate Home in Atlanta, and he was there to December 1912; he was again a resident from November 1918 to October 1922.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as George B. Atkinson. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, a questionnaire on the occasion of the University of Georgia's Centennial (1901), and the History of the Inmates Admitted to the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia, online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his daughter Eva applied for his government headstone in March 1935. Thanks to Laura Elliott for the nudge to look into Private Atkisson and for some details here.

He married Caroline Matilda "Carrie" Buffington (1848-1938) in June (or August) 1867 and they had 5 children.

09/12/1842; Clarkesville, GA

07/03/1923; Maxeys, GA; burial in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, GA