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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George M. Miller

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 22 year old farmer at Arbacoochee, AL, he enlisted there as a Private in Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry on 24 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 27 September, sent on wounded furlough on 14 October, and was absent to at least October 1863. He was slightly wounded again, in the toe in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and again furloughed home. He was surrendered and paroled at Talladega, AL on 17 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1840 in AL

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> [AotW citation 31707]

2 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 31708]

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