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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George W. Rooker

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old mechanic, he enlisted on 30 March 1861 in Littleton, NC and mustered on 6 June in Garysburg, NC as a Private in Company A, 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his "thorax" (upper body) and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 26 September and transferred to the US Army hospital in Chester, PA on 30 September. He was sent to Fort Delaware on 24 October and was a prisoner there to 15 December, when he was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange.

He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 18 December, furloughed for 3o days on 16 January 1863, and was back on duty by February 1863. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 but was afterward with his company to their surrender and parole at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Sharpsburg wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1840 in NC

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 34133]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #453 [AotW citation 34134]

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