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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George B. Mitchell

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old hack driver living with his mother Mary and sister Ellen at Montgomery, AL. Giving his occupation as painter, he enlisted there on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was home on wounded furlough into February 1863, then back with his unit. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 1 April 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865 and also signed a parole at Montgomery, AL in June 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

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 32786]

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 32787]

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