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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

George S. Gulledge

(c. 1842 - 1864)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farm hand living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 7 slaves on their plantation at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 2 July 1861 and mustered as 4th Corporal of Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed for 40 days on 9 October 1862. He was was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to his death there of "inflammation of the lungs" on 5 February 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Malichi was also in Company H.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

Death

02/05/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 32551]

2 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 32552]

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