George Andrew Gegenworth

He came to Texas just before the war and enlisted at Columbus in Colorado County, TX with Lt. Roberdeau on 28 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 5th Texas Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland and was detailed to go into the town of Sharpsburg on the evening on 16 September 1862 to obtain rations. He had not returned to his company by the time fighting began the next day.

He was detailed as a cook to Captain Roberdeau on 1 October 1862 and returned to regular duty by February 1863. He was slightly wounded in the mouth at Chickamauga, GA in September. He was furloughed home for 90 days on 20 February 1864, but did not return, and was paroled there on 26 June 1865.

In 1870 he was a retail grocer in Columbus, TX. He may have been unemployed there in 1880 - his wife listed as a baker.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Sharpsburg detail from Captain Roberdeau of Company B. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Austrian-born Frances Neumann (1842-1915) in Texas in April 1861 and they had 3 children.

09/27/1831; Bavaria, GERMANY

08/22/1886; Columbus, TX; burial in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Columbus, TX