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Confederate (CSA)

Private

George Robert Adamson

(1842 - 1918)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a merchant, in 1860 he was a 17 year old student at Bowdon College living with his parents in Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry - his Captain was Charles A. McDaniel, president of the college.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on detail to the CS Commissary Department in Atlanta, GA from 31 October into April 1863, briefly in a hospital in Richmond, VA then transferred for duty to a hospital in Atlanta, GA on 2 May 1863. He was retired due to disability from his Maryland wound in July 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a retail dry goods merchant back in Bowdon, GA and he was a farmer there in 1880. By 1900 he was again a shopkeeper in Bowdon but in 1910 he was running a general store in Bremen, Haralson County, GA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Fannie Mae Yarbrough (1851-1927) in May 1868 and they had 10 children.

Birth

12/21/1842; Henry County, GA

Death

03/28/1918; Bowdon, GA; burial in Bremen City Cemetery, Bremen, GA

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 33658]

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