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Confederate (CSA)

Private

George L. Goodwin

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents, brother Byron, and 2 slaves on their farm in the Cross Keys district, DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

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 Starling 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. 1840 in 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 33794]

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