George Washington Cook

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 22 year old salesman living with his parents, 3 siblings, and 2 slaves on their farm near Covington in Newton County, GA. He enlisted there on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

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

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps hospital in Burkittsville, MD and was later a prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 29 March 1863, then sent to City Point, VA for exchange. He was admitted to CS General Hospital #9 in Richmond, VA with pneumonia on 5 April and transferred to Henningsen Hospital there on 4 May, where he died on 30 May 1863.

His father David filed for his final pay in June 1863, and was paid in January 1864.

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

His brother David Carter Cook, Jr. (1839-1885) was also in Company A and survived the war to surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA in April 1865.

c. 1838 in GA

05/30/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA