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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Cleland

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small farm at Lithonia in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in Atlanta, GA on 8 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father John filed a claim for his final pay of $82.73 in March 1863, which was paid in February 1864.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1841 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 33748]

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