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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George D. Anderson

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 7 siblings, an 18 slaves on their farm at Oxford in Newton County, GA. Giving his age as 17, he enlisted at Covington in Newton County, GA and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and left behind, with no later Confederate record, and no record he was captured by Federal troops. It is likely he died on the field.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33660]

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