George Emanuel Crawford Chance

In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his widowed mother Cecilia and 2 slaves on her plantation in Burke County, GA. At 15 years old he enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered in Richmond, VA on 12 August as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

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

He was home on furlough from 26 October to 7 March 1863. He was promoted to 2nd Corporal and First Corporal, dates not given, was captured again sometime before June 1864, place not found, and was in the parole camp, Camp Lee, at Richmond, VA by 21 February 1865. He surrendered and was paroled in August, GA on 18 May 1865.

For more than 50 years, from before 1870 to his death at age 74 in 1920 he was a farm worker in Burke County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret Virginia “Mittie” Chance (1850-1926) in January 1868 and they had 7 children.

His brother Alfred was also in Company E.

03/14/1846 in GA

05/06/1920; Augusta, GA; burial in Habersham Methodist Church Cemetery, Perkins, GA