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Confederate (CSV)

Major

George Martin Grimes

(c. 1832 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 29, from Bamberg in the Barnwell District, he enrolled at Summerville, SC, on 20 July 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company F (later G), First South Carolina Infantry. He was elected Captain at the reorganization of 12 April 1862, and was promoted to Major on 30 August (or 1 September).

On the Campaign

He was with his regiment in Maryland.

The rest of the War

By November 1863 he was completely out of his depth as Major, then commanding the regiment as senior officer present, with very poor results. Newly commissioned Colonel J.R. Hagood returned him to command of Company G as Captain (his commission as Major having never been confirmed) about February 1864. He was mortally wounded in the assault on Fort Harrison, VA on 29 September 1864, and died of those wounds on 1 October.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Campaign detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1832

Death

10/01/1864

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 31995]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 75 [AotW citation 31996]

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