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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Kay

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was conscripted and enrolled at Columbia, SC on 1 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the left side of his chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Va on 12 October, where a surgeon noted the "ball still retained in the cavity. Patient's general condition very good, but wound looking unhealthy." He was furloughed home on 17 October 1862 "doing well" but did not return to his company. He was dropped from the rolls by October 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1834

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 32230]

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