George Washington Wren

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 5 slaves on their farm at Rainsville in Butler County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 30 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 24 October 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right thigh at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was absent in hospitals in Richmond and Greenville, AL for much of 1863 and to at least August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Washington County, TX and in 1900 was farming in Franklin County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as George Wrenn.

He married Emily Ann Coe (1845-1905) and they had a daughter Callie (later Woodard, 1866-1942).

11/12/1842 in AL

1900; Franklin, TX; burial in Bethel Cemetery, Cypress, TX