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Confederate (CSA)

Private

George T. Hiland

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a Pennsylvania-born harness maker, in 1860 he was a 16 year old laborer living with his parents and 3 siblings near Bascobal in Jackson County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died in the US 6th Army Corps field hospital at Burkittsville, MD on 5 November 1862, and was buried there.

His father Edward filed a claim for his final pay of $142.83 in May 1863 which was paid in October of that year.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; he's also seen as George T. Highland.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Death

11/05/1862; Burkittsville, 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 33803]

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