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Confederate (CSA)

Private

Paul Godbee

(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 living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 7 slaves on their plantation in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion on 8 August.

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 father Jacob filed a claim for his final pay in March 1863.

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. 1841; Burke County, GA

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 33787]

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