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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George A. Lewis

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was 27 and unmarried, with no children, and was a farm worker living next door to his parents farm at Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 2 August as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

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 William 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 the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1833 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 33845]

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