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(c. 1845 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his widowed mother and 6 siblings in Newton County, GA. He enlisted on 1 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His mother Rhoda filed for his pay of $74.13 in January 1863, which was paid in April 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as George P Callahan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His brother Erastus was also in Company A. Brother Lewis (b. 1844) enlisted in Company A in August 1862 and served to Appomattox; brother Henry (b. 1840) joined the Company in August 1861 and died of disease at Yorktown, VA in December 1861.
Birth
c. 1845 in GA
Death
09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD
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 33733]