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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Ward

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer at Coals Station in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred as a Private to Company F of the 12th Alabama Infantry on 21 October 1862. He was captured at Winchester, VA on 19 September 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 27 September until 15 March 1865 when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1843 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 32991]

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 32992]

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